Please Vote for Me was a great film. As many of us know, China is a communist country so the idea of a democracy is foreign to some. Teachers at an elementary school in China had the idea to introduce democracy by having that year's class monitor be voted for. What I found most interesting, was the fact that regardless of what age category or who where democracy is; people tend to react the same way. As you can see in this movie, there are third graders bribing their classmates, there are arguments and almost anything you can imagine that happens within in a democracy occurs throughout the film with these children.
I really enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to a foreign-film junkie. Not only are you able to see democracy at its finest but you are also able to see the way of life of the Chinese. Before this movie, I was not aware that China had a law in which each household can only have one child due to over population. It was just interesting to see how similar each family was to say, an average American family. It was an interesting documentary with a great plot.
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