He is a young man who came to the capital from the countryside. From the beginning of the film, the boss told them: "The bicycles given to you are the ones you eat." It is also like the first time he rode a bicycle and happily shuttled through the crowd of people in the capital. , looking at the shot of the high-rise buildings in the capital, it seems that with this bicycle, he has a reason to exist in the city and can control the city. He looked up at the girl sitting by the huge French window through the hole in the brick wall and thought she was beautiful. The swaying red dress and the clanging of high-heeled shoes in the alley are their definition of urban women's beauty, longing but out of reach. Although he didn't say anything from the beginning to the end, the words of the shop owner represented their hearts. From the beginning, the two of them looked at the woman by the window and sighed: This is the woman in the city, and living in such a big house is not a good face. If it were me, I would eat pork ribs noodles every day. Although the words are very light, simple and even a bit ridiculous, but in my heart there is a huge gap between the countryside and the city. Finally, when they learned that the woman was just a little nanny who secretly wore the owner's clothes, they sighed: I would have known earlier... This is a close-up of these urban outsiders, who are forced to live in a big city because of this Under the pressure, they don't even dare to ask for the right to pursue love. Of course the dream will never be so easy, his car has been stolen and he gets involved with a bunch of high school students in the city in the process of looking for it. When a group of them pulled him to the construction site and were about to forcibly snatch his car, he grabbed the car firmly and let out a heart-wrenching howl that sounded especially painful in the empty construction site. and helpless. The group of teenagers in Beijing didn't know that they were just trying to get their buddies back a car and a face, but what they took away was the only survival straw for this teenager in the capital. At the end of the film, he was surrounded and beaten by a group of people and watched his car smashed. He couldn't bear it any longer. He finally picked up a brick and took pictures of the person who smashed the car. Then he staggered to pick up the car and walked through Beijing in slow motion The streets are full of traffic, and the camera slowly rises, gradually giving a big panorama of Beijing. The director wants to tell everyone here that this is Beijing. How many people are here looking for their dreams like this young man, and how many people's dreams are swallowed up here. What he finally carried was not an old bicycle, not a broken dream, but his dignity, which he had to exchange for it. Barely maintained dignity.
And "he" is a high school student, an image of a too accurate and too authentic adolescent boy. The shaping of this image is really what I want to applaud the director. Adolescent teenagers, if it sounds good, they are bloody and strong, but the opposite of bloody and strong is that when something happens, blood will go straight to the brain, and if you don't want anything, you will rush to it. For him, a bicycle is the dignity of this young man, his dignity in front of his friends, and his dignity in front of the girl he likes. I still remember that he rode his bicycle to deliver the girl he liked, and rode back along the lake embankment all the way. The director expressed that his ecstasy at this time was not to make him laugh wildly or to shout wildly, but to let him take his hands off. At the beginning of riding the bike, he had no expression, but when he thought about it, he inadvertently smiled. The sun was shining on the boy's face. He opened his arms, let his clothes flutter in the wind, and stretched out his hand to feel the sunshine and feel the spring. As soon as the little fresh music sounded, I was immediately touched by such a scene. There is also a scene where he and a group of buddies grab a car upstairs on the construction site, and there is a scene where he and a buddy are close-ups. They all had their school uniforms open, his tie fluttered to the side, and the buddy wore a standard black boss sunglasses. The two of them raised their heads and looked down with contempt, deliberately pretending to look like a ruffian. The appearance is really a particularly accurate portrayal of the psychology and performance of teenagers of this age. There is also his confusion and quarrel with his father in the film, and when he sees other boys taking his girl and embarrassing himself, he rushed up to take a brick and filmed him without thinking about it. These idiots are things that everyone will do more or less when they are young. When you see this film and think about it, you will smile slightly, thinking that you were so stupid and stunned, but also so youthful. matter.
The other day, I read a book called "The Yue Reader", which introduced the method of reading. One of the passages is that actually reading is a process of dialogue with the author. To understand a book is to understand what he wants to tell you through the form of the story he tells. In fact, watching a movie is also a kind of reading, listening to the reading of the language. Just like reading a book, you are not only reading a story, but using some scenes to evoke the resonance of your own experience, and get some moving or beautiful feelings. If you want to go to a higher level, I think you should read it carefully and understand what the author really wants to say and how he expresses what he wants to say, so that you can empathize with it. Therefore, I also want to make myself work hard to watch the movie and understand the movie from this aspect, under the condition that I have time and leisure.
In Yue Reader, "analytical reading" is introduced in this way: to have a deep understanding of the author's intention, master the outline of the whole book, and know how to find out the keywords used by the author to communicate with him.
In this film, the keywords are also shown in the title, teenagers and bicycles. The bicycle is the symbol of Beijing city and the life of the people in the middle and lower classes of Beijing city. Teenagers are synonymous with dreams. For the courier guy, this is an outsider surviving in the city of Beijing, and to some extent it can be said to be a dream-chasing film. For a junior high school boy, this is a film about a teenager who uses a bicycle to support his dignity. To a certain extent, it can also be regarded as a dream-chasing film, but the dream here is that he is in the same age and in the same age. Like the face in front of girls. Therefore, a film, using a bicycle, ties the two dreams of a city boy and a rural boy to the same bicycle through a contradiction, and watch them do all kinds of stubborn and stupid things for their respective dreams. , it still tastes great. However, from the segment where the migrant workers answered at the beginning of the film and the panorama of Beijing Road given by the director at the end of the film, it can be seen that the director's focus is still on the theme of expressing the dreams of the middle and lower classes. The dream of the courier boy is just an example. There are so many people like the courier boy living in this huge Beijing city. Although they come to this city and live in this city, it is difficult for them to really integrate into this city. In this city, how many people's dreams are raised here, and how many people's dreams are swallowed here. This is the real life, and it is very real by everyone's side.
In fact, every time I watch a Chinese film and experience it carefully, I still find it very flavorful. The real Chinese elements are not always martial arts, palaces, bamboo forests, etc. And like the bicycles in the bicycles of seventeen years old, the alleys, the middle and high school teenagers playing the showy mountain bikes, the costumes of Hahan Hari, the gangster-like loyalty of the young brothers; like the motorcycles in Ren Xiaoyao, the roadside is covered with a roof cloth The green billiard table, the feasting karaoke room... These things are very real and Chinese things, although not so gorgeous, but this is life itself.
I like these directors.
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