Best Movies (of All-Time) | Lifed - StumbleUpon. Please Vote for Me - Stefano R. Mugnaini - Mises Daily - StumbleUpon. I recently watched Please Vote for Me. It is a documentary about a Chinese third-grade class that is given the unprecedented privilege of electing their own class monitors. The film is set in the city of Wuhan. I spent a wonderful year teaching English (or at least Southern English) in Hubei Province, just up the train line from Wuhan. That experience gave me an appreciation for the magnitude of the election. I know the stakes: I have seen the power wielded by the class monitor. The election process involves skits, song-and-dance routines, and a healthy dose of crying. Most striking is some of the dialogue between the candidates and their parents in the lead-up to the election. The teacher writes the word "democracy" on the board. One of the candidates, Cheng Cheng, gets home and asks his father, "What kind of thing is democracy?
" Next, another child, Luo Lei, is shown describing the election process to his parents. I had to watch that part twice. Stefano R. Comment on the blog. 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics. The Top 10 Must See Foreign Films of the Last Decade & The Pulp List... Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post.