helpless boy

Theo 2022-04-19 09:02:58

The first time I watched Seventeen-Year-Old Bike was one night seven or eight years ago, and I remember being in tears almost from start to finish. Especially at the end, when Guo Liangui was carrying his bicycle in the crowd, I felt that I couldn't restrain my sobbing. A deep grievance and injustice grew rapidly in my heart, and it seemed that all the emotions of the protagonists were vented in me.
Years later, I am no longer a teenager. When I watched this film again, I was still sad, but I found that what I am sad about now is different from what I was sad about that year. The emotional climax is not at the end, but in the few scenes where the two teenagers hand over the bicycles. I suddenly realized that this is not the consensus reached by Xiaojian and Guo Liangui on the issue of bicycle ownership, but the common helplessness that these two boys from different places and with different life experiences had in their youth, even All the teenagers are helpless.
On the issue of bicycles, for Guo Liangui, he is not wrong, he just wants to get back the bicycle he bought with his wages; for Xiaojian, he is not wrong, he just wants to ride him and buy it for 500 yuan bike back. They can't figure out why the bike isn't theirs, and yes, neither can we. But why can't they each have their own bikes? The shamelessness of the car thief, the indifference of the owner of the courier company, the promise that Xiaojian's father could not keep... Therefore, neither Guo Liangui nor Xiaojian could own their own bicycles. All the problems do not come from themselves, but from the "great world" they are about to go to. The world has nothing to do with them at this moment, but they are inevitably intertwined. Therefore, these teenagers have to face, deal with and even bear many problems brought by the "adult world". Of course, they will only follow their own ideas and methods, such as Guo Liangui's "axis" and Xiaojian's persistence. So there is the scene of Guo Liangui and Xiaojian handing over the bicycles. They must not be quite willing to share their things with strangers, but what can be done? They may or may not be able to think of why this is so.
For Guo Liangui and Xiaojian, it is a bicycle problem, and for every other teenager, including our youth, it may be some other problem. These problems are various, big or small, but one thing is the same, they all stem from the "adult's world" that the teenagers are about to enter. When the problems of the "adult world" fall into the world of teenagers, no matter how they shout, "It's none of my business! It's none of my business!" But they can't escape from facing these problems. What kind of helplessness is such a face? Maybe only everyone who has experienced such a young time can deeply appreciate it.
Thinking of childhood, everyone has a sweet smile, it is the world of pure children. When it comes to youth, there is always a taste of astringent aftertaste, maybe this is a kind of helplessness!

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