Beijing: young men in packs, machismo, class divisions, violence, and indifference. Guei arrives from the country: toothbrushes, hotel foyers, and Qin, a rich neighbor in high heels, dazzle him. He gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it. A student, Jian, has it; for him, it's the key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, a girl he fancies. Guei finds the bike and stubbornl... (Full plot summary below)
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Beijing: young men in packs, machismo, class divisions, violence, and indifference. Guei arrives from the country: toothbrushes, hotel foyers, and Qin, a rich neighbor in high heels, dazzle him. He gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it. A student, Jian, has it; for him, it's the key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, a girl he fancies. Guei finds the bike and stubbornly tries to reclaim it in the face of great odds. But for Jian to lose the bike would mean humiliation. The two young men - and the people around them - are swept up in the youths' desperation.
Leave your thoughts about Beijing Bicycle.
| New York PostJonathan ForemanIt tells a compelling story while making a devastating, entirely convincing argument about the corrosive effects of Chinese capitalism on traditional values and human dignity. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasWith this masterful, flawless film, Xiaoshuai emerges in the front ranks of China's now numerous, world-renowned filmmakers. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceThis well-acted piece is of interest for its rather subtle examination of Chinese class distinctions. |
| New TimesBill GalloShot in the mean streets of a great and compelling city, here's a fascinating vision of societal upheaval that would likely awe De Sica himself. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThe work of a maturing filmmaker, one who marries causes that matter with a sober melancholy and an admirable restraint. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe movie is filled with sweetly funny moments, but its exposure of class, income and cultural differences makes it an uneasy charmer right up to its violent denouement. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaWang's young actors are impressively natural, and his documentary-style camerawork captures the rhythms and cacophony of the big city, all its crazy-quilt comings and goings. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenBeijing Bicycle is a good film that owes a huge debt to a better film. And that, of course, is Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief." |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunBeijing Bicycle is a subtle, beautifully made film and a seemingly good-natured social commentary on contemporary Beijing. Unfortunately, it's pretty boring. |
