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Beijing Bicycle 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Really great!! I really liked how class dynamics are portrayed through the movements of bicycles as a metaphor. Having a bicycle means so little, but to the leads, it really means so much.
On the one hand, Guei is lower-class, dependent on the bicycle he's basically renting to fundamentally make his living. When that bicycle is taken away from him, his ability to live is fundamentally destroyed unless he can get it back. He can't be someone without a bicycle;…
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