Please Vote for Me

Please Vote for Me is a movie about three third graders in Wuhan, China who are tested in an experiment of democracy. They have three students compete against each other for becoming the new hall monitor.

In the movie there are three very different students who are running against each other. You have Luo Lei, who is a very immature strict students who uses violence as the answer to maintaining power. Cheng Cheng, who tries to win by being manipulative and making the other opponents look stupid. The last person is Xu Xaiofei, she is very calm and mature about this and she tries to run a clean campaign thought the movie.

It's interesting to see how these children acted in the movie over being hall monitor. They don't really act any differently than presidents do in the election of becoming president of the United States. I thought that this was a really good movie. It had a point to it and it was entertaining the whole time. Even if you don't like documentaries or politics you should still enjoy this movie.

There wasn't really any difference in the way things were in this movie compared to America. Besides obvious political views, one thing that was different was that families could only have one child because they were over populated. Overall i thought this was a great movie and i would suggest seeing to anyone.

MONGOLIA!

Mongolian Ping Pong

This movie is about a young boy named Bilike who lives without any electricity or running water. He lives in a tent along the steppe grasslands. He one day goes to the river and ends up finding a ping pong ball. He takes it to his grandma and she tells him that it is a golden pearl and that it is a treasure from the river.

Some things that i liked about this movie was that it was kind of funny. The actors were all good and all the story line was kind of dumb it turned out to be okay. I noticed that they were wearing the same kind of clothes that the people were wearing in the weeping camel. Not much was really different from the two movies culture wise.

Some things that were different about the movie compared to United States was that the kids all had horses. They used the horses to get around everywhere and they would often go to far away places. The parents didn't really seems to be watching over there children at all. They would just disappear for many hours and come home like nothing happened.

I would not suggest this movie for someone to watch because although it was decent for a movie you watch in school, i wouldn't waste my time watching it outside of school. The movie didn't seem to have a point to it at all, besides him finding a ball i don't really get why they would waste time with a movie like this. Compared to the other movies we watched i would say this is one of the best.

The Story of the Weeping Camel

This Movie is about a camel that has a white baby camel and doesn't want anything to do with it. It's filmed in Mongolia and follows the life of a family that herds camels and other animals. The family tries everything they can to get the mother camel to accept her baby so that it can feed it. Although this movie may not sound very interesting, it kept my attention and is overall worth watching. It is predictable but it is interesting to see what the Mongolia lifestyle is like and how it differs from American lifestyle.

One thing that i really enjoyed about the movie was that the family doesn't spend there time sitting around a T.V. or a computer, they spend time together by doing work with one another. They have fun by playing games with rocks and they sing together while sitting around in there huts. The family all lives next to one another in little huts. In the movie the family gets around by riding on the camels back, they have to travel a long distance to get to a town which has everything that you would need to live.

It's interesting to see how life is different from in Mongolia herders than it is as an American living in the city because they don't have many things as we do. The movie makes me thankful for the things i have and to not take them for granted. In the movie they don't even have a T.V., which the little boy in the movie really wanted. They also dress differently than we do because they wear robe like outfits and there pockets are on the inside unlike American clothes.

The movie was overall a good movie and i would suggest watching it. Although it might not seem very interesting, it is. If you enjoy watching documentaries then i would suggest this one. The ending however seems a little scripted because of the camel crying when accepting it's baby. Either way i thought the movie was touching.