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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Peggy Chiao (writer)
Hsiao-ming Hsu (writer)
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Release Date:
25 April 2001 (France) more
Plot:
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
Extremely affective tale about being seventeen more (43 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lin Cui | ... | Guo Liangui (as Cui Lin) | |
| Bin Li | ... | Jian | |
| Xun Zhou | ... | Qin | |
| Yuanyuan Gao | ... | Xiao | |
| Shuang Li | ... | Da Huan | |
| Yiwei Zhao | ... | Father | |
| Yan Pang | ... | Mother | |
| Fangfei Zhou | ... | Rongrong | |
| Jian Xie | ... | Manager | |
| Yuhong Ma | ... | Accountant | |
| Lei Liu | ... | Mantis | |
| Mengnan Li | ... | Qiu Sheng | |
| Jian Li | ... | Jian's Classmate | |
| Yang Zhang | ... | Jian's Classmate | |
| Yuzhong Wang | ... | Jian's Classmate |
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Also Known As:
Beijing Bicycle (France) (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence and brief nudity.
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113 min
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Color (Fujicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | USA:PG-13 | Australia:M | Spain:7 | Sweden:11
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The arcade game that Jian and his friends play is "Dance Dance Revolution". more
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References Ladri di biciclette (1948) more
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Browsing through some of the previous comments, it seems many viewers take the movie primarily as an allegory of class clash in Beijing. While the movie does state the contrast with emphasis, it's much more interesting as a story about teens. The title translates literally to "seventeen years' bicycle."
The story is just that. Guo is a young man who earned a bicycle and promptly has it stolen. Through luck and perseverance, he finds it in the possession of Jian, a high school student. Trouble ensues.
I grew up in Taiwan, and I remember kids doing incredibly cruel things to each other. Not so much gunning down classmates but there were plenty of physical and emotional violence. This movie is a powerhouse of insight into the psyche of teenagers. Contemporary Hollywood pumps out teenage movies by the dozen each year, and most simply gloss over the amount of pain and awkwardness adolescence can bring. Beijing Bicycle, on the other hand, can serve as an instructional manual for any high-school bully wannabes on how to reduce the stammering geek next door to a shell of a man.
It's therefore understandable that the movie can be very difficult to watch at moments. Guo suffers humiliation after humiliation, and at times I wondered in frustration what it would take to get him to swing back (the ending provides some answer to that, I think). There is some humor in the movie, and Guo does have the resources to prevail occasionally. If you can stand two main characters respectively passive and oblivious, the story is an incredibly touching one about being young.