I don't know where I saw it, Zhang Yimou said that "No One Can Be Missed" is his best film. I went to watch the movie with this sentence in mind, but was disappointed.
Probably because of the subject matter, films that focus on the bottom tend to get very little scolding, as if everyone is afraid of getting a bad reputation of "lack of sympathy" and "lack of humanistic care". But when I watched this movie, I always felt panic, not just sad. Whether it was Wei Minzhi chasing the village head for 50 yuan, or she let the children in the classroom turn into a mess of porridge, or she didn't care about chalk and dragged the students up in the middle of the night to force an apology, etc. The lack of good education for the illiterate is certainly worthy of sympathy, but in the film I saw a terrible meanness that is exclusively for the illiterate. So I always felt that Wei Minzhi did everything for the 60 yuan. I even felt a little nauseated when I saw Wei Minzhi later force the children to move bricks and ask each of them for fifty cents in order to go to the city.
Maybe someone here will point to my nose and say that the reason you feel this way is because you don't understand them, you didn't grow up in the countryside, you haven't lived their life, you're mean.
It's okay, I'm just stating my feelings.
I didn't expect the ending. In my opinion, such a happy ending is just a superficial excitement. What if Wei Minzhi brought Zhang Huike back? Is he really going to study until he graduates from high school? His mother was still in the hospital bed, still poor, and sooner or later, he would still go to the city. Moreover, Wei Minzhi is like this, and the educational conditions are like this. There is no difference between dropping out and not dropping out of school.
"Not one less" so what? Those who should be less will still be less, no matter whether the girls in the sports school or Zhang Huike, they have their own destiny. Later, we will find that many touching and profound humanistic concerns are all posturing. Can it be less, not just shouting slogans.
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