"The Hunger Games" on and off Campus: An Educational Sociological Analysis of the Documentary Please Vote for Me

Abstract

This paper takes the three students who participated in the monitor election in the documentary Please Vote for Me and their families as the analysis object, starting from the family of origin, parent-child relationship, school education and so on to explore the causes of vicious competition behind the campus election and the ways to deal with the problem jointly. When the power comes to the underage children for the first time, how the children fight for it in a virtuous and fair manner has become a thorny educational issue which has been neglected for a long time. When parents who have been reformed by society teach their children "campaign experience" in person, the children's campaign in school has become a "hunger game" for adults behind the scenes. Ignoring the educational significance of the campus election process and focusing only on the election results will lead to children's wrong understanding of the original meaning of competition, which will sow the butterfly effect of malignant influence for them to enter the society later. The utilitarianism caused by the highly competitive social environment has created parents anxious about education, and the small class campaign documented in this documentary is an externalized presentation of social and educational issues. The optimization of the social environment, the change of parents' values and the follow-up of school education is a trilogy to improve the character of the next generation.