“Please vote for me!” is a documentary which was directed by Weijun Chen in 2007. This documentary took place in a primary school in Wuhan. It touches the topic of “democracy” that the teacher announced to her class that they can vote for the class monitor “democratically”. However, it was very ironic that the teachers had previously selected three candidates for the election. The candidates were Luo Lei, Xiao Fei and Cheng Cheng. They were able to choose two assistants to support the election respectively. In the documentary, they used different methods in order to grab votes. Firstly, this documentary can be classified as an experimental documentary since it shot for the experiment of letting students to vote for their class monitor. The three participants were required to express themselves through some activities, for example, the talent show and debate. They were needed to compete with other participants in those campaigns. The teachers and their parents also helped them a lot throughout the election period. And this documentary recorded the actuality and reality of what they said and what they did during the election. In my opinion, the three candidates and their family represented different types of teaching methods and attitudes towards election; for instance, …show more content…
The methods that they used were really entertaining and quite surprising. The way how you treat the next generation, they behave in what way, like Luo Lei’s father said beating classmates is to help managing the class, and then he kept this way to manage the class. It showed the importance of parenthood. However, the drawback of this documentary is the director touched the sensitive topic of “democracy” too directly that the video may be banned and unable to spread out easily so not many people can reach it. I hope all Chinese people can watch the documentary so as to understand China