Simple story

Kadin 2021-12-16 08:01:15

Although there are many labels that can be applied to this movie, the structure of the story is very small, so these labels-love, Chinese gangsters, corrupt police, totalitarian politics-are not developed. The focus of this movie is only two: interspersed narrative. And "riding" the spirit of the scholar.

The plot of this story is relatively simple. All the events took place within two hours, and the characters are not complicated. If the story is unfolded in a single-line order, the story will be thin, but the use of interspersed multi-thread unfolding is quite different.
The beginning flashback slowly unfolds, the characters appear one by one, and then through the continuous flashback of time, the plot is advanced while explaining the characters. The individual clues are gradually twisted into a rope, and all the story backgrounds are finally explained in the middle of the film. The original individual characters It has long been related, and the one-sided plots also have intersections. It’s like a painting by Danqing's wonderful hand, one on the left and one on the right, one point on the next, and at first it looks like graffiti. It didn’t appear until after six or seven minutes of painting. It’s like a stream flowing slowly, meeting The same exit, crowded and rushed out, unstoppable.
It is even more rare that the flow of the plot is always accompanied by the rolling of the wheels, the whole movie has the strongest sound from the beginning to the end-long live the "knight" spirit!

I like the natural wind across my skin. I don’t like the soft wind from the air conditioner. I
like the old but comfortable red T-shirt. I don’t like dark business suits. I
like to keep stepping on the pedal to measure the world. I don't like sitting on four wheels to take the shortcut to the south, I
like the heartbeat, sweat and salty, unpredictable danger, I don't like ease, weakness, indifference... I
like cycling!
Dead wheel, steel structure, no brakes
,
can't stop , and don't want to stop!

The above is the knight philosophy of New York City courier Wilee, do what he thinks is right, refuse to behave, refuse to pretend to be reserved, be a simple person in the modern cement forest and steel monsters, do simple things, and find the most primitive human beings. Passion and joy. It is this spirit that makes Wilee give up being a lawyer and become a courier. It is this spirit that makes Wilee ride a brakeless bicycle across the death line in New York traffic, and it is this spirit that makes Wilee because of a Chinese mother. The misfortune and desperate for themselves.
In the contemporary business society where money is supreme, indifferent and indifferent, they are stupid, immature, and non-mainstream. But we ask ourselves, don’t we have any envy or jealousy? Haven’t we also had a “ridiculous” dream-running barefoot on the African savannah, touching the black sky on the top of Mount Everest, chasing the most dangerous waves in the sea, shouting loudly on the Arctic wasteland, and embracing your love Like embracing death...? We just compromised too early in the face of the cold and hard reality. The young man is like an old man, learning only for rice, the workplace is exhausted physically and mentally.
As for these "knights", as Wilee said, maybe one day in the future he will give up on cycling, sitting at a beautiful desk in a suit and purse, and becoming someone he once hated, but not today. And before that,
Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes.
Can't stop.
Don't want to, either!

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Premium Rush quotes

  • [last lines]

    Wilee: I like to ride. Fixed gear. No brakes. Can't stop. Don't want to, either.

  • Vanessa: [yelling at a cab driver] Hey Jersey, you wanna move your fat ass?

    Wilee: You know how sexy you are when you talk like that?