Beijing Bicycle

Beijing Bicycle

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Release Date

1/25/2002

Runtime

113 mins

Genres

Overview

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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Two teenage boys become locked in an escalating struggle over a stolen bicycle that exposes the vast gulf between their lives in modern Beijing. What begins as a straightforward recovery spirals into something far more complex, examining how poverty and privilege shape survival and morality.

Mood

TenseMelancholicContemplative

Themes

ClassIdentityComing of ageJustice

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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