"Seventeen-year-old bicycle" after watching

Colt 2022-04-21 09:03:32

This film gives me the feeling of the miserable life of disadvantaged groups in urban China struggling at the bottom of the society in the 1990s. The style of this film is somewhat similar to "Sunny Days", but the style is quite dark, and the pressure is almost breathless. It's pessimistic to find out how hopeless it is to live in China's rigid hierarchy.

The center of the film revolves around a bicycle, and the bicycle also seems to be a metaphor, referring to something that is very precious to an individual but can easily be taken away by others, such as freedom, human rights, when a person cherishes the most When freedom is ruthlessly taken away by this society, and vulnerable individuals are powerless in the face of a powerful state machine, we can imagine this kind of sadness, all the things we thought were good at first, or first love or love, or we Everything you give is broken like a beautiful soap bubble, and all you get is eternal deceit and oppression. When we lose everything we have and become nothing, we will be ruthlessly abandoned by this society, because we are "useless" people, and we are the natural victims of social change. There is no choice at this time. At the end of the film, the protagonist picked up a brick and threw it at the strong man, and was finally chased and killed by the strong man. Even unrelated people were not spared, and the beloved bicycle was smashed. It seems to indicate that in this rigid and violent hierarchical society, no one can stay out of the way, and no one can escape - either work together and take up arms, or there is only a dead end.

What impressed me the most was the scene where the protagonist of the final film carried a broken bicycle and walked in the city, which seemed to herald a kind of helplessness. The most precious thing we have ever owned will eventually be smashed by this dirty hierarchical society. smash.

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