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Release Date: 22 August, 2000 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Not One Less Reviews
Thick and Rich in Chinese Countryside Culture
Zhang Yimou is a genius. Watch this movie.
If you have a heart it will break. If you have eyes, they will cry as your chest is heaving. If you have a mind it will work to make sense of the seeming contradictions that our cultural bias creates; but once you've figured it out your heart will be filled with love and admiration for the young teacher who, in Chinese tradition, devotes herself completely to her students. Your eyes will see through the veil of culture and in ways that others cannot to an understanding that these countryside people are not poor; but rich in ways that we in the west are starving for. There is true meaning and devotion in their daily life, and a connectedness to people that is deep and profound.
This is one of the foreign films that reconnects me with the years that I spent in China and the love and gratitude that I hold for my many Chinese friends. The story may seem hard to believe; but all of the situations and behaviors depicted are very much within the enduring traditional cultural pattern that exists in China today. "If you are my teacher for one day; you are my teacher for life." Watch and learn. Watch and love.
An Inspiration
When was the last time you saw a movie in which a 13 year old girl was the hero in a way that would move adults as powerfully as it would teenagers? This heart-warming story of tenacity and persistence set in rural modern china will leave you inspired and grateful for even life's simplest things ... like a piece of chalk.
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