NOT ONE LESS

This was a touching, heart wrenching, true story based upon the depressing lives of Chinese youth in the rural countryside. The hardships being faced by individuals that young is hard to believe especially considering I am still learning how to take care of my self as a college student. This film spoke to me in pro founding ways. I realize that we, as affluent individuals, are really not doing our part in helping the problem. Watching Zhang Huike begging for food in the city was heartbreaking. I could never imagine letting my children pay for the mistakes and financial burdens that resulted because of my poor decision making. The film was at times slow but if the audience is able to get past the slowness of the film and look deeper at the text of the film it really allows the audience to think and process what is happening before them on the screen. This film provided as a reminder of how giving back to those less fortunate can do to help change around there lives. When the television station found Zhang and the people of China heard his and his teachers story donations and money flowed in to help support their plight. This was a beautiful story of a country’s peasants struggling to survive and continue the education of a future generation that is going to be condemned to the hardships of life faced by their parents.