"BEIJING BICYCLE"

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"Beijing Bicycle" has been compared to Vittorio de Sica's "The Bicycle Thief," a classic of a half century ago, but this film is a landmark classic that raises the bar on movies about poverty and the city. The director, Wang, is being called a 6th generation Chinese film director, from a long tradition of great movie-making despite the political censorship inherent in communist China. I am sure the censors let this one through because of the theme of peasant nobility and capitalist corruption. They let this one pass because it also shows the tremendous urban development of China's ancient capital, where great projects of high-rise housing are dwarfing and replacing the old hardscrabble alleyways. antalya sex shop It is clear that Chinese entrepreneurs are beginning to accumulate great wealth as capitalistic enterprises are being not only tolerated, but encouraged by the old guard, who are realizing the tremendous economic potential of a billion energetic and hardworking people.

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Since China is becoming more open and industrialized, not to mention technologically sophisticated, the powers that be are showing off with this stunning film. Beijing is beginning to rival Tokyo in terms of developing garish areas of entertainment, including the adrenalin-rushing venues of video games and carnival arcades, populated by hopping and harem-scarem teenagers. There is a pulsating intensity that is almost New York City or Las Vegas, luring the kids to blow their allowances, cut school and smoke cigarettes. Into this hodge-podge of posh high-rise hotels and down-and-dirty slums we have a voyeuristic view of present-day Beijing.

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If you were a normal American tourist, you would never see this interior view, so the movie is worth the price of a socio-anthropological tour that would have cost in 5 or 6 figures. Therefore, the movie is a great bargain because in less than two hours the viewer is exposed to cinematic art at its highest level, with a synthesis of a classic story, one dramatic situation after another, subtle and powerful acting, original and creative cinematography, tied together with a pounding and relentless soundtrack that keeps the forward motion escalating to the very end.

The Shakespearean plot is mindful of "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story." The protagonists are teenagers, but the story is such that this over-used American term simply does not apply. These adolescents are young men and young women. vibratör And what emerges is the fact of China's one-child policy, in which many female newborns were dispatched, leaving the present China with many more young men than young women. At a billion and growing, China needed birth control. They formulated a plan and enforced it. Now what is the fallout?

The consequence of this policy seems to lead to white-hot competition between the males, and therefore gets primitively brutal at times. That has always been the case, given human nature, but we see that Chinese young men have not developed their aggression to the point of shooting up their classmates. They are not above braining each other every now and then with a brick, but bruised and bloody, they wake up from being knocked out and are ready for more conflict. Their 5000 year civilization keeps them trying to compromise and halting their aggression just short of murder, unlike the Europeans.iç giyim

The competition is naturally about who's going to win the heart of the lovely girl. In this bicycle film, the heroes are those who can do the greatest tricks with a bike, and especially the latest mountain bikes, with shock absorbers, izmir sex shop rugged tires and multiple gears. They can bounce up steps with them, whirl around on wheelies and even maintain a precarious balance while stationary. The girl is attracted to the Marlon Brando type who performs the best tricks bare-chested and who is cool enough to smoke cigarettes and carry a Zippo lighter. Instead of motorcycle gangs, the rich boys ride their daredevil bikes up the high stories of construction sites.

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If you know anything about Beijing, it is a city of millions of bikes, swarming like taxis in New York. Most are for simple transporation to and from work and shopping, but some are used to transport multiple birdcages and even mattresses. One bike is shown failing to support a refrigerator! The camera is everywhere, recording the waves of bicycles amid the swarms of automobiles, from ground-level up, izmir sex shop through flashing spokes and chains, to panoramic views from above. The camera shows the poor neighborhoods with newcomers brushing their teeth in the street, even sharing a toothbrush, as well as the interior of posh hotels, where the hapless bicycle messenger must undress completely and take a shower in order to deliver a message to a Mr. Zhou. We find Mr. Zhou getting a comically assisted workout by the masseur and he is not the right Zhou. There are many Zhou's in China! "Try Zhou Yimou" is the inside joke, as that is the name of the director's mentor, the Great Zhou.

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The bicycle messenger is a stubborn lad from the country and gets caught in a revolving door and into the machinations of the new posh living, and thus we are caught in the never-ending struggle between wealth and poverty, sophistication and ignorance. No need to go into the details of the story--- suffice it to say it is a gripping one, izmir sex shop a coming together of age-old irresolveable conflict, that of wealthy young men looking for romance and poor ones seeking a better life. As we observe the young men, vibratör struggling with inborn instincts of sex and aggression, there is sure to be shock, pain, bloodshed and important lessons learned. The audience of this great film is priviliged to observe them as if it was first hand.