The opening of Nathan Silver's second feature Exit Elena presents a series of images that are so simple and practical in nature, (not just by the consumer grade camera the movie is shot on, but also by plain sight) that there's something actually rather extraordinary about them. We watch as 19-year old Elena (Kia Davis) completes the final test to become a certified nursing assistant. These moments are clunky and awkward. She struggles with a support strap, but manages to calmly talk her way through it with a gentleness and politeness that befits someone perhaps reserved and, indeed, as we're to find out, a little unsure of herself. The camera stays static as Elena goes through the motions with her practice patient. It dawns on...
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