over the weekend i caught a couple of interesting movies and it was this movie that weirdly enough i sat through. they practically created a whole story from a bicycle! obviously there was more to it than just the bicycle...
"Beijing Bicycle revolves around a seventeen-year-old boy Guei (Cui) from the countryside who came to Beijing to seek work. He finds a job with a courier company, which assigns him a brand-new bicycle. After it is stolen one day, the stubborn Guei goes on a search for his missing bicycle. At the other end of the city, Jian (Li) is a schoolboy who buys Guei's stolen bicycle from a second-hand market. When Guei's search brings the two boys together, more than the ownership of the bicycle is brought into question." .... wikipedia
having been to china once (hk not counted), i for a fact know that bicycles are a big thing there. there are sooooo many of them that it's scary to try to cross the road so we kinda get the whole bicycle thing. and since D cycles, he recognised the brand of the bike in the movie.it quite funny how there are so many silent moments throughout the film and there are some comedy scenes in it. you watch the life of these two boys; how they handle what is thrown at them. slow but intriguing. at some moments you think there isn't a point to the movie, and then you get it.
