This was a beautiful story of a man named Zhao, who has been searching for love. When he finally found a women he wanted to marry, he lied to her to make it as though he had more money then he did. He told her he was the Mnanger of Happy Times Hotel which didn't really exist. Unfortunately he got more then he thought he was in for. When he finally met her family, he met her son and a blind girl who was left by her father from a previous relationship. The women and her son treated this girl as if she wasn't a part of their family. They sat down for dinner and the son would steal food right off the girls plate. Eventually the women passed this girl off to Zhao saying since he had a hotel he could take her and give her a job, she said he didn't even have to pay her, which shows how much this women cared for her. Zhao desparate for the hand of ths women and the feeling the need to get married was persuaded into taking her. Zhao made a bus into a love shack in a park out of a bus, when he took the girl there it was being lifted by a crane by the town to better the parks. He then took Wu Ying to his home and let her stay there still leading her to believe there was only construction going on. He tried to bring her back to his wife to be but she had already cleaned out her room and gave it to her son. She then told Zhao that she was a trained Massues and to give her a job in the salon of his hotel. He immediatly found a way to make a make shift massage room. Him and a few of his friends went to massage places to see what they looked like and made a room out of steel and fabricated the walls to feel like a real place. They did this in a corner of an old factory. They really liked this Wu Ying and felt like they needed to take care of her, so they continued to lie to her to make her want to stay. Meanwhile Zhao had been trying to get a hold of his new fiancee and she kept blowing him off. When he finally went to her home with flowers he saw her with another man. She told him she new he was lying about everything and ending the conversation with bring me my girl back. Upset from what had happened he got drunk, wound up insulting a man on the street and getting hit. He was sobering up at what looked like a fast food place, he had a cup of coffee in front of him and wrote a letter to Wu Ying posing as her father. He wrote the letter as if he was her father and basically was telling her to stay strong and that things would work out. On his way back to give it to her an Unfortunate turn of event happens, Zhao is hit by a truck, he was in the hospital in a coma. His friends went to the hospital and the doctor was asking about his daughter because of the note in his pocket. When his friends went back to his apartment to get her She was gone. She left a recorder saying that she knew they were lying about everything, but she was not mad at them. She explained that the times she had with them were the Happiest times of her life. They end the movie with Zhao in the hospital an Wu Ying walking the streets of China. In one review I read said it perfectly "Zhao was looking for a wife but gained a daughter."
Not One Less
Is about a 13-year old girl, Wei (Wei Minzhi) who set out to ne a substitute teacher in a small chinese farming village. The class she was substituting for was filled with kids who were just a few years younger than her. Therefore she didn’t have the best authority and respect of the children. She went because she needed to make money however the only way she was getting paid was if she did not loose any of her students, by time she was not needed. She would only be paid 57 Yuan which is not much at all for this great responsibility.
She didn’t know anything about teaching and was given a lengthy
List of things that she must do. They also only gave her 26 piece of chalk for the 26 days she would be teaching, One piece a day.
The first days at the school were Chaotic, Wei would write the lesson on the board and then leaving to sit outside. The children began to act up so she went back inside and tried to get them to behave.
Zhang HUike was the boy who gave her the most trouble. He was like a class clown and was the most unruly student. This movie is based on their relationship because Huike decided he was going to go to the city to work instead of going to school. When she finds out that he did so, she went to go find him with almost no money. Money that she and her students made by moving bricks just so she can go and find him. Not only is she worried that she will not be paid if all her students are there but she is truly worried about Huike because he is a young boy in a big city.
When Wei gets to this city she searches the railroad station and the city streets hoping to find him. Meanwhile he was begging for food on the streets.
She finally goes to a tv station and wiats there until she can get on the air to beg the people of china to help her find him. He actually saw the program she was on and saw her crying on the tv. They eventually found eachother and were followed back to the village by the tv station to report on what has happened to Wei and Huike.
This movie was a beautiful story with a happy ending. It makes me wonder about all the homeless children in China. Here in New York it is very rare to see children on the streets begging for food, young adults and older, maybe but not children.
This movie won the golden lion for best picture and also
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