Mr. Donkey

2016 [CHINESE]

Comedy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 2374 2.4K

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Plot summary

In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.

Director

Top cast

Shen Zhou as Photographer
Kun Wang as Coppersmith's wife
Yang Gao as Secretary
Alan Aruna as Coppersmith
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1023.4 MB
1280*600
Chinese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 1
1.85 GB
1920*900
Chinese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wittsss 9 / 10

Beyond the Title: Unraveling Moral Dilemmas in 1940s China

Before you press play on "Lv De Shui," a little context might just transform your viewing experience. This film, at its heart, is the tragedy of a Chinese feminist in the 1940s-but it's also so much more.Due to some less-than-ideal English subtitles and a few critical cultural gaps, here's what you should know to fully appreciate this layered story:Set in rural mountainous China during the turmoil of WWII, the narrative unfolds far from the battlefields-yet far from simplicity. A group of idealists, each escaping their own urban struggles, establish a village school with a noble dream: educating every child in the countryside (think China's version of "No Child Left Behind").But idealism soon collides with reality. The school relies on a black donkey-Lv De Shui, named for its life-sustaining task of carrying water across a treacherous 10-kilometer path. When funding for the donkey is denied, the teachers invent an imaginary English teacher under the same name, diverting his "salary" to cover their essential water carrier.The plot thickens when a government inspector arrives to evaluate Mr. Lv De Shui... and that's all we can say without spoiling the story.Visually, the film carries an almost theatrical elegance-each frame thoughtfully composed, each edit intentional. The performances are raw and convincing, pulling you into the moral whirlwind of its characters. A special nod goes to cinematographer Jong Lin, whose bold and poetic use of color turns landscape and emotion into art. And the theme song? Unforgettable."Lv De Shui" is an ambitious film. It raises difficult, timeless questions: Do the ends justify the means? How far is too far? When does compromise become corruption? Is it better to strive and fail-or never strive at all? What gives us the right to judge another's choices?It critiques how easily people bow to power and how righteousness often comes with a price. It's also, on a personal note, a story about truth and courage-being honest with oneself and brave enough to stand up, even when the world pushes you down.Give it a watch. You won't just like it-you'll remember it.
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Reviewed by yaoxiaoming 9 / 10

After this joke, don't cry

As the film's slogan said, tell a joke, you can not cry. "Mr.Donkey" This film is rare in China, is not easy to release, when a movie, the more you do not want it to finish, it shows that this is a good movie. The ridicule between the absurd comedy color of the tragedy of the brewing, so that "donkey water" can be funny, But overall, this is a script tamp, intriguing black comedy. The film at the beginning of the era background in a remote village school, principals and three teachers conspired with a pull water donkey fictional teacher "Lvde water". To receive more than a salary to the Education Bureau, but how the EDB to the school inspectors, so a unidentified cobbler posing as Miss Lu absurd things to start, and to lie and continue to prepare the lie, The power of the film to promote the plot, but also for its tragic outcome foreshadowed.

With the continuing ferment of this lie, this subversive attack on intellectuals and the corruption of education in a given environment, through the alliance of teachers and coppersmiths who are not strong, make the story more humorous and endowed with depth, In order to achieve the so- called dream unscrupulous divisions, and ultimately the film everyone from the good expectations were to be broken one by one, humanity is also completely lost before the bottom line of greed, the ugly most incisive show, to build the film is extremely good Of the inner depth.

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