1. English Basic 4
Teacher: Adriana Zardini
Student: Luiza Francisca
Date: 10/30/07
Film review: No one less
No one less was directed by Zang Yamou, the best Chinese director all these
times. He made also Hero and House of flying daggres all these good to. No one less
was produced in 1999 and few time later its beginning this movie was a success in US,
not like a Hollywood film, but it was very well for a foreign movie. It doesn’t star
famous actors for us, but the cast is very talented. They get touch our heart.
The film is set in a Chinese poor and rural village and tells a beautiful history:
the young teacher problems to teach in a small and poor school.
In that village, the teacher of the single school must visit his mother who is
spelling, but before, he needs to find a substitute for the students, who are just children.
The unique candidate is another child from the neighbor village: a very shy and poor
little girl (whose I forgot the name). The principal teacher promises her if no one student
get out of the class until he comes back, he will give her some cents. So she tries don’t
lose no one child, but a little boy needs to go to the city to get find a job, because his
mother is very sick and doesn’t get work.
When the teacher discovery that she tries to heap up some money to bring back
the boy. So she and the other children go to a pottery and load many hundred bricks.
After all, the money isn’t enough, so she needs go walking to the city.
There, she gets many problems and after almost a week without sleep and eat
she finally get find the boy and bring him back.
So we can see No one less is an emotion film what give us many life examples,
such as discipline, love and persistence. I strongly recommend that film, is the best I
ever see and it’s also a good example that there are many good movies make in other
places outside Hollywood.