The movie Please Vote For Me is a documentary by Chinese director Weijun Chen in the year 2007. The film documents the experiment of democracy in a Chinese classroom. Being that China is a communist country, the kids involved along with their parents, haven't actually had the experience of being democratic, so they each go about gaining support in their own different manners. The film follows the election of a classroom monitor in the third grade class at Evergreen Primary school in China. The movie itself is thought provoking, and very funny. Being able to see the reactions of the kids during the electoral process, and following the electoral process was pretty funny. There were three candidates, two boys and one female. The candidates were Cheng Cheng, a boy who wanted to be classroom monitor for the sake of just having the experience, Xu Xaiofei, the lone female of the group, who fought hard and seemed to me like the best cadidate of the three, and lastly Luo Lei, the former classroom monitor known many times for beating other students and having strict rules. In the end Luo wins the election, not really because he had a nice agenda, but mostly because he bribed the students at the end of the elections. Overall we see the benefits of democracy through the film, being that everyone's voice was heard, but we also we the failures of democracy, being that people could still be influenced by bribes. Cultural differences between this movie and my life are immense. I We don't have elections for classroom monitors, and I don't speak Chinese. However we do have elections for class counsil, and other different school organizations.
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