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Not One Less DVD

G (General Audience) :: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment :: Released: 2000-08-22

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Not One Less Summary When The Regular Teacher Must Leave His Post, He Can Only Find A 13 Year Old Girl To Take His Place. She Takes Her New Job So Seriously That She Refuses To Loose Even One Student.
genre: foreign Film - Chinese
rating: g
release Date: 22-aug-2000
media Type: dvd

Zhang Yimou's (Raise the Red Lantern) tale of a plucky adolescent substitute teacher in a rural Chinese village, cast entirely with nonactors and shot on location, is an astute example of censorship politics. Taking on touchy issues with a veneer of can-do spirit and happy-ending fantasy, his film is at once rousing and eye-opening. Wei Minzhi is a stubborn young woman who takes a substitute teaching job in a tiny provincial town because they can't afford anyone else. When one troublemaking boy heads off to the city to help support his starving family, it's not a sense of responsibility that drives her rescue mission, it's money: She won't receive her bonus if any students are missing. Her efforts to raise money for the city trip pulls the class together in a sense of purpose, and even drives the lessons, but when she finally reaches the city she's shocked to discover an urban jungle of lost and runaway kids. Yimou shoots with an easy naturalism that suggests a well-intentioned docudrama in spots, due to narrative contrivances and a few self-conscious performances, but his compromises ultimately make his shocking look at China's rural poverty, adolescent workers, urban juvenile homelessness, and woefully underfunded educational system more potent. In the heat of the film's uplifting climax, the once-mischievous boy pulls the film back down to earth with his reflection on his big-city adventure: "I had to beg for food. I'll never forget that." --Sean Axmaker

Not One Less DVD Techincal Details Cast: Minzhi Wei, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao, Zhimei Sun
Director: Yimou Zhang
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Running Time: 106 mins
UPC: 043396052758
Binding: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2000-08-22
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Chinese (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround),