The village’s lone teacher has to leave on family business, leaving a 13-year-old girl as the only person available to substitute. That has to be a rough gig for someone at that age.
CSU Chico’s Humanities Center continues the 2011-12 University Film Series with the 1999 film “Not One Less” (“Yi ge dou bu neng shao”), from director Yimou Zhang (“Hero,” “House of Flying Daggers”).
The show starts at 7:30p.m. tonight, February 7, in Ayres 106. Admission is three dollars. Prior to the film’s start, there will be an introduction by Sandra Collins, professor in the department of history. This movie serves as part of this year’s theme, which is “China and the West.”
When the only teacher in a remote mountain village has to leave for a month, the mayor of the town looks for someone to substitute in his position. The only person he can find is 13-year-old Wei Minzhi. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day he is gone, and he promises Wei that he will give her an extra 10 Yuan if there is not one less student upon his return. Several days later, poverty strikes the class troublemaker, Zhang Huike, forcing him to leave to seek work in the city. Possessed by stubbornness, Minzhi determines to bring Huike back, She enlists the remaining students in raising money for her to go to the city. When she arrives to Jiangjiakou City, she finds Huike, lost and begging for food. Wei comes to realize that her stubbornness might be Huike and the school’s salvation.
Be sure to catch “Not One Less,” only showing tonight, at CSU Chico’s Ayres 106, located across from Celestino’s in Chico.
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