The Elephant on the Bike Reviews

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This story of a young man growing up teased by other children and misunderstood by others around him because of his handicap…born with a bad hand, angry at his disability, his family trying to help him overcome his insecurities, grows up feeling the same to where he can’t keep his girlfriend, get a job, fights with friends….remembers days of youth with young girl with her own handicap (whom he found out died later) who helped him through some of the tough times, remembers how his father helped him even making an elephant for him out of wire because "an elephant can do anything with his trunk with no hands"..,,,I had a hard time understanding why the title of this movie, but later in it shows the little girl who befriended him as a child had drawn a book of an elephant on a bike and then at the end is a song written of same…he worked in a zoo around elephants as well.  I found this to be slow, the guy was down all the time, the family was angry and sad, there was no good times or happy times, the emotions expressed were basically as unfeeling as his hand was supposed to be until the end when the father dies.  Was not one of the best made films but if you like a slow moving uneventful movie it’s o.k..

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