Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress Analysis

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai was written in 2002. This movie take places in China on top of a mountain in a small little village. Two men who have been educated in a university are sent here to to be re-educated in their education. Along the way, the men Lou(Kun Chen) and Ma( Ye Liu) faces problems learning the new education style of the village. They feel very lost and different being in the new village. They find comfort and peace in china reading book they stole from a villager and a girl named the Little Chinese Seamstress(Xun Zhou). As the movie goes on, Lou and the Little Chinese Seamstress develop a relationship, even though Ma is still in love with the seamstress as well. The movie ends with the Little Chinese Seamstress leaving the village with different views on life. When Lou asks what changed her, she said “balzac(one of the authors’ of the books read to her my Lou and Ma).” The scene in this movie that best explains the concept of education is when Lou and is sent to travel up the mountain with barrels natural fertilizer and Lou spills the barrel. The Scene begins with a the …show more content…

The scene in the movie where Lou spill fertilizer all over the ground and is yelled at by his leader teaches us the concepts of work, communication, and emotion. This scene shows us how Lou learns to perform new work, Communicate better with people and handle his emotions in hard situations. This scene capture the whole message of education of the entire film because this scene teaches three concepts of education which can be applied to almost every person/situation in this film. This is proven by the fact that most characters in this film had to deal with a certain type of work or task, different people,and emotion. With new concepts of education you can learn a lot about your surrendering, other and yourself that exactly what Lou

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