Film Analysis

Running head: FILM ANALYSIS
Film Analysis
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1FILM ANALYSIS
The concept of movies emerged with the purpose of providing visual relief to the people.
It primarily aimed to provide entertainment to the human society (Sun, 2006). However, soon the
nature of such movies changed whereby the directors and the producers were more interested in
showing the real life condition of the people and the society. In this manner, it can be opined that
movies are an excellent visual representation of the current happenings in the society (Zhang,
2002). This essay seeks to understand how a Chinese movie has a significant impact on the
structuring of the Chinese society and affects its people. In this respect, the essay seeks to
understand the movie known as the Beijing Bicycle from the point of view of the directors. The
essay makes an attempt to show how the directors utilized the movie in order to propagate an
important and meaningful message within the Chinese society. The essay concludes with the
importance of movie for the growth and development of the human civilization.
The movie of Beijing Bicycle is a socially important movie within the society of China.
However, the learnings from this movie can be generalized to the broader spectrum of the entire
human civilization. In the movie, the character of a seventeen year old boy is followed around.
He came in to the region of Beijing in order to make a living for himself. This scene is
significant because Beijing is one of the most populated and the busiest of countries in the entire
world. A small boy trying to make a living for himself in such a huge alienated country is quite
daunting in nature (Yeh and Davis, 2008). The movie sought to show the difficult in the living
standard of the people in this scene and the various compromises they had to make and risks they
had to undertake in order to survive. The character of the boy, named Guei, manages to find a
decent employment with a courier business organization. This firm provided the new joined
recruits with new bicycles so that they may find it easy to travel around the region in a faster
manner. The underlying expectations from the employees was that their production would also