The film is about the protagonist who redeems a bicycle in order to get a job, only to have the bicycle stolen on the first day of work. He was anxious to find it, and finally became a bicycle thief in desperation. I think the "person" in the title of the film is not just a person, but the thief who caused the protagonist to be on the brink of unemployment, and the person who finally became the protagonist.
Secondly, the lens language in the film is very rich, mainly focusing on showing the multi-faceted human nature and social status quo. At the beginning of the film, the director uses a set of montage shots to explain the harsh living environment and social background, and the filming dialogue is also used by the director to reflect human nature. Then, the movie is full of sadness, one is when the wife sells the sheets to change the bicycle, and the other is the protagonist's search in the market again and again, the grievance of being attacked, the inner struggle, and the despair when he is finally caught. The changes in the background music show the inner activities of the protagonist. What impressed me most was that at the end, the silent struggle of the protagonist, the pictures of the bicycle and the protagonist, cross-cutting, with the background music, I felt a deep anxiety, a father entangled in the survival of his family, the bottom line of morals, In the end, forced to make a living, he chose to be the person he hated at first. At the same time, life is so cruel and real, pouring cold water on him again and again. From the very beginning of the film, the protagonist did not believe in the fortune-telling that his wife said, and at the end he also stepped into the fortune-telling room, which shows the change in his heart, and he began to get hope from others. At the end of the film, when the father was caught stealing a bicycle, he lost his dignity as a father in front of his son. The father lowered his head, and the son's small hand grabbed the father's big hand. It was the son's warmth that once gave the father a life of hope.
Maybe life is like this, full of hope, but there are crises everywhere, each of us may be the person who steals the bicycle, and the bicycle may be the hope in our life. In fact, the bicycle in the film symbolizes hope, and what is stolen is the hope of the protagonist to support his family.
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