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Not One Less | Year: 1999 Classification: Foreign Film - Chinese Directed: - Yimou Zhang A underappreciated masterpiece. Everything about this movie -- the music, the story, the characters, the universal themes of education and the value of the individual -- is extremely moving. It is even more so upon reflection. The scene of the child teacher on television tearfully asking for the return of her student, and the final images of the children writing words of hope on the blackboard cannot be easilly forgotten. Not at all pretentious, it's a simple, sensitive tale about humanity that lifts the viewer into a higher level of the sublime. I know many people of various ages and cultures who have seen "Not One Less" and who also have fallen in love with this film. A must-see! This movie tricked me... The movie seems simple enough. A girl, really nothing more than an older student, is selected to watch over the school while the schoolmaster is away. The teacher is stubborn (if not too smart) and suggles to keep the class intact till the master comes back. When one boy, needing to make money for his family, goes to the big city the sub follows, to try to find him.<BR>The cast is made up of normal people. The students are real students, the shop keepers are real shop keepers and the street bums, for all I know, are real street bums.<BR>At first the film seemed slow. Sometimes the movie tried to be TOO clever and did things that I seemed to see coming a mile away. But it was a trick, like when the kids in Rome hold up a newspaper in front of your face while another tries to pickpocket you. The director is using what seems like formula scenes that any Hollywood hack could write while slowly weaving a truly emotional story that only hits you near the ending. Maybe it is because the cast are NOT actors, or the actions taken by the cast seemed so normal, or the scenes of street life were so REAL. By the end of the movie, when the teacher was on TV asking for the boy to come home, I found myself crying. THAT is not the norm for me.<BR>The movie is like a mass-produced car that some artist has worked on. Outside it seems plain but on the inside it has real power. In some ways more powerful than 'The Road Home'. GOOD WHAT CAN I SAY?IT IS VERY GOOD.I LOVE THE MOVIE.IT IS MY FAVOR,GREAT WOEK Buy Not One Less at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Not One Less Search with the Priority Search Engine on Not One Less This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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