Please Vote for Me ~ Review

Beginning to End (A Summary):


For this film, it is a documentary of three 8 years old, Chen Chen, Xu XiaoFei, and Luo Lei, who were chosen by their teacher to be taking in the roles of class candidate. And the process of one of them getting the role as class monitor, they have to get elected by their peers, performing the democratic election way. These three elementary kids steps in front of their peers firstly by showing their own talent. Chen Chen, Xu XiaoFei and Luo Lei all goes under pressure with one another attacking each other, putting one down with attacks to make one fail. Chen Chen, Xu XiaoFei, and Luo Lei gets their help from their parents and guardian and also teacher for tactics advice. On the second stage these three students introduces themselves and what they are capable of doing. Thus each of them going up to introduce themselves, of course they also gave negative points as the audience. Not only that but both Chen Chen and Luo Lei goes and attack Xu XiaoFei, as a girl in which they see as partially weak. On the third stage of the democratic election, all three students, Chen Chen, Xu XiaoFei and Luo Lei, goes against each other, bringing out the negatives and weakness of the other, to gain their peers' votes. They all break out of course, but in the end the results goes to Luo Lei as the class monitor.

Government and Society:

Looking in through this documentary film, we see a lot in the country of China, not just how it looks but how citizen of the country live their life and how it is being run. From the beginning Director WeiJun Chen asked the students if they know what "democracy" is, in which none of them knew. The acknowledgement of democracy can be seen from that, and also that kids in China, growing up do not know what democracy is. China, of course , is a communist country, and takes control of the population and their way of thinking with restriction, but still China's government do still open up to the world for their people's benefit.

One thing that I found to stick out is that each family has only one child. And that child is the apple of their parents' eyes. The roles of parents are strongly seen through this documentary too. Due to the one-child policy that every couple must abide to, parents strongly supports that child in anyway to be sure that he or she is successful and win.

Another thing with this documentary that can be pull out is that boys or men see girls or women as a person that is weak. But yet they are willing to accept her to their status power as boys or men, showing equality.

Of course throughout mostly every country women has been degraded, and were not able to get their opportunity as men. But now as the world moves forward in time women are given their rightful place in society with the men. From the documentary, Chen Chen and Luo Lei both attacks Xu XiaoFei first, since she is a girl and is can be more emotionally be brought down. But then not do they also do that but then also they apologizes back to her.

Education:

Education in China seems to be more founded as what everyone is going for and is fully focused on. Just like the democratic election, this helped the students know and get the feel of what a democratic election is in the western countries. The students, Chen Chen, Xu XiaoFei, and Luo Lei, all took this seriously, not just because they are going to get to be class monitor, but also because they were chosen to. The parents are support too, making sure that they are successful and do things correctly.

My Thoughts:

I think that overall, this documentary is a must watch and a must show. This film shows a different part of the world. Not only that, but it also shows the presence of democratic election reaching to places in Wushan, in an elementary school, and showing the process of a democratic election too. This film here shows how one country's children may not know democracy is, not just China but maybe in other part of the world.