Please Vote for Me

Please Vote for Me
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 58 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 19, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: First Run Features

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 625
Rating: B -- The teachers have decided which three eight-year-old third-graders will run [and] Director Weijun Chen has captured all the politicking of American democracy in this microcosm... Full Review
Reeling Reviews
Aug 5, 2008
Rating: B -- The result [in the film] is a campaign that uses name-calling and favor-giving that would make the old Tammany Hall crowd proud. Full Review
Reeling Reviews
Aug 8, 2008
Rating: 46/100 -- To be sure, the student voters in Please Vote for Me are a capricious bunch. It's difficult to tell, though, where clever editing has been employed to create false drama. Full Review
MovieMartyr.com
Aug 24, 2008

Product Description:

What happens when people who have never lived in a democracy suddenly have the right to vote and, better yet, run for office' PLEASE VOTE FOR ME explores this scenario, by chronicling the first open elections for school monitor in a third-grade class in central China. A pair of boys and one girl vie for the office, indulging in classic political moves, including low blows, spin-doctoring, character assassination, and gestures of goodwill, adjusting their tactics as they guage their standing with voters. The result: a witty, engaging micro-lens view of human nature, China's one-child policy, and the democratic electoral process.

Description by First Run Features Home Video:

Two males and a female vie for office, indulging in low blows and spin, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while gauging their standing with voters. The setting is not the Democratic presidential campaign trail but a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China.
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME, which made the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' documentary feature shortlist, packs its fleet hour with keen observations. Chronicling a public school's first open elections - at stake is the position of class monitor - filmmaker Weijun Chen has crafted a witty, engaging macro-lens view of human nature, China's one-child policy and the democratic electoral process as the ultimate exercise in marketing.
(Excerpted from Sheri Linden's review in The Hollywood Reporter)

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  • UPC: 720229913362
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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