The protagonist of the film is a young man who came from the countryside to fight for a living in the city, and the other is a child of a laid-off worker. In a sense, both belong to the bottom of this huge social system. For the former, the city is unfamiliar and indifferent, but it also has a sexy side occasionally, money, status, and lovers. Coming here with a dream and looking forward to his future, the bicycle is the link between him and the city. He needs this car because the existence of the bicycle enables him to feel his place in the city. Once he loses the bicycle, he will He will be immediately abandoned by the city like a baby abandoned by his mother, abandoned by his own dreams, and the future world he built with his dreams will collapse in an instant.
Although the latter is a native of Beijing, he has no sense of superiority, and the city seems to him without any warmth. He lives in a divorced family, and the family has financial difficulties because his father was laid off. Children's education seems to pay special attention, even beyond their financial affordability, they send their children to study in expensive aristocratic schools. When he was surrounded by high-ranking and noble children, the imbalance in his heart was particularly obvious, and the balance was filled by a beautiful girlfriend and a mountain bike like the surrounding friends. The car was his ticket to the world around him. In order to get this car, he would steal money from his family and go to the second-hand market to buy it. Once he lost the car, it meant that he would be shut out of the world he always wanted to enter. .
From the perspective of this relationship, the fate of the two is the same. Whether it is Agui from the countryside or Xiaojian who is born and raised in the country, their sadness is that they will never be able to resist the "keynote" of the entire era. This "keynote" refers to ——When the whole society is advocating "success", poverty, ugliness, and rural hukou have become synonymous with "failure", and there is no space for individuals to choose between success and failure. Money, power, sex, cars, houses, and luxury goods are the thresholds for "success", and all our efforts are to get rid of the shadow of "failure" and turn ourselves into so-called "successful" people.
It is this "success" theory that the whole society is advertised that makes most people lose their balance in their hearts, from the imbalance of Xiaojian's parents (sending their children to aristocratic schools) to the imbalance of Uncle Agui (rich and wealthy). A person's life consists of changing several sets of clothes a day), to the imbalance of the babysitter (the so-called city person feeling obtained by stealing), the breath of this imbalance is everywhere, and the two seventeen-year-old children have grown from this kind of Growing up in the environment, their bodies will inevitably be branded with the sad atmosphere of the entire industrialized era. The film revolves around a bicycle, which depicts the contradictions, inferiority, self, hesitation, love, life, ideals and seventeen-year-olds of individuals. The young people's understanding of reality, vague understanding of social rules and problem-solving methods are fully demonstrated.
At the end of the film, Xiaojian picked up a brick to shoot at the boss, and was chased and killed by the boss. Everything foreshadows: in this society with a clear hierarchy, no one can stay out of the way, personal violence is powerless to change the rules, the wheel of the times is huge and ruthless, and children will inevitably be crushed by a cruel growth mark in their youth.
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