from promise

Carli 2022-11-04 11:19:08

From the promise that "No One Can Be Missed"
is Zhang Yimou's early film, telling the story of a single-strand female teacher. It seems that the total value of a single person is lined up in a movie. Another Zhang Yimou's "The Lawsuit of Qiu Ju" and Feng Xiaogang's "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" both tell stories for these single-minded people.
The only teacher of Shuiquan Primary School, Mr. Gao, had to take a temporary leave of absence to go home because of something at home. The village chief had to find a 13- or 14-year-old girl, Wei Minzhi, from the village next door to replace Teacher Gao in class. Teacher Gao felt that she was young, but it was not easy to find someone, so she had to instruct Wei Minzhi to copy the texts for them every day and count the number of people accurately, not one of them. There were originally more than 30 students, but only 26 remained because the family could not afford it.
The students felt that the teacher was too young, and they started to bully her without the appearance of a teacher, and the whole classroom was in chaos. Zhang Huike's family was poor and his mother was sick in bed, so he had to go to the city to work and earn money. After Wei Minzhi learned of the situation, he called on his classmates to pool money together to find him.
After Wei Minzhi arrived in the city, she found Zhang Huike after a lot of hard work and the help of kind people, and these children in the mountainous areas received a lot of attention from the society.
The film focuses on the barren countryside and a lingering problem - education. How many children are deprived of educational opportunities due to poverty. There are only 26 students left in the entire school of Shuiquan Primary School, so Teacher Gao, who was leaving, kept telling Teacher Wei that "one must not be missing". The chalks are carefully calculated and used one by one. The classmates overturned the inverse ratio naughty, and the tears of the study committee members should also drip into our hearts.
There are several things to think about in the movie.
Why did Teacher Wei work so hard to find people in the city? TV reporters believed that she should be responsible for her students, and kept asking her why she had to find Zhang Huike during interviews. I think the reason she was looking for someone was probably a commitment. The reason why Mr. Wei agreed to be a substitute teacher was because he was paid 50 yuan. What education does she know at the age of thirteen? Copying texts in class, no one is allowed to leave the classroom when the sun does not shine on the nails on the pillars. This is the class, but she promised Teacher Gao that there would be no less than one student, so the teachers in the county came to recruit special students, and she hid the students so that they would not take them away. When Zhang Huike went to work in the city, she took the students to move bricks, pooled money and went to the city to find them by car. She is not good at expressing. When a TV reporter asked her why she had to find Zhang Huike, she just looked at the camera and couldn't say anything. Not saying it doesn't mean it's not important, just holding the promise of "not one less", she is on the street, eats leftovers, and asks "are you the director" when she sees people at the TV station door.
The process of Wei Minzhi entering the city to find people shows us the face of society. There are many good people in society, such as the tractor driver they met when they entered the city, the kind person who woke up Wei Minzhi who was sleeping on the street, the director of the TV station, and the lady of the small restaurant who took in Zhang Huike. It can be said that there is no bad guy from the beginning to the end of the movie. The conductor who drove Wei Minzhi out of the train, the aunt who kept the undocumented Wei Minzhi from entering the TV station, are they bad people? I don't think so, what's wrong with them doing things according to the rules? However, when we watch a movie, we always feel uncomfortable, and we always feel that something is missing. What's missing? I think it's mostly human touch, and rules are cold. If people's hearts are tied to such cold rules for a long time, it is estimated that they will become cold.
At the end of the film, with the help of the TV station, Wei Minzhi not only found Zhang Huike, but also got the help of many well-meaning people in the society, donating money and materials to the school, which is a happy ending. But just imagine how many people would have paid attention to these children without this trip to the city? There were more than 40 people in the school at first, but only 26 were left when Wei Minzhi took the class. How much will this number be in a few years? Think at the extension point, how many backward schools like this exist in China, and how many can be paid attention to by the society. Education is not a simple problem, and the reason why students drop out of school is undoubtedly economic. What was it like when Mr. Wei took the students to buy two cans of Coke with the money they thought they could make from moving bricks, and 26 people shared the drinks? I think they are happy, we are sad. Only by solving the economic problems of impoverished areas can these children play carefree in school.

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Not One Less quotes

  • TV Host: Do you like the city?

    Zhang Huike: Yes.

    TV Host: What is good about it?

    Zhang Huike: The city is beautiful and prosperous. Much better than the country.

    TV Host: What's the most lasting impression?

    Zhang Huike: That I had to beg for food. I will always remember that.