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Meili de dajiao (2003)
The comedy of one civilization hitting the other.
Watching this movie will enable you to see the steep differences in China between different locales and social classes. You will understand why the Chinese government enacts strict rules on the free moving of the population in the country. From Beijing to the inland school, it was one civilization to the other; the plight of the kids and the help from the teacher to encourage them to fight poverty by studying hard, is really moving. Very funny at some points but the whole movie brought tears to my eyes. The optimistic spirits and the no-whining outlook of the world, of these people, are really moving. You see struggle but it's struggle from people with a stubborn vision: get out of poverty. Stubborn like a donkey, as they say in the movie.