Beijing bicycle

Juxtaposition is utilise to frame the main(prenominal) ideas in Xiaoshuais Beijing Bicycle meaning the bicycle of a cardinal teen year old, was its original name in Chinese when it was titled Beijing Bicycle later. Juxtaposition is being used by Xiahoshuai to make the earshot recognize the main ideas of this germinate. The main ideas of this film was conflict between Urban and Rural culture, clash of traditional with the contemporary, and how china is beginning to develop into a modern society. Guei and Jian are characters in this film and are used to represent conflicts between rban and rural culture.Background scenes are overly used to contrast modern and old China and how it is being changed. Chinese ancient alley ways are seen in many parts of the movie. Because these alley ways have been there for a dogged time, it is considered as an ancient pathway. The houses which can also be seen are built in the old time and the architecture is old fashioned. Construction sites ca n also be seen at the start of the movie, down below we can see the ancient alley ways and cars passing by. This shows how China is beginning to change into a new artless where everything is developed.Ancient alley ways can also symbolize how China is turning into a developed country, since these designs are starting to disappear. When Guei and Jian are racecourse away they run through these ancient alley ways and meet up each time, this proves how ancient alley ways might be overwhelmed by the modernization of China and disappearing slowly. Guei comes from the country side and Jian is from the city. 2 characters with totally different cultural background are being used to contrast urban and rural life. However they both have one thing in common, which is the importance of the wheel around to them.To Guei the bicycle represents his lively hood and his Job he protects the bike with all his strength. The bicycle symbolizes pride, status to Jian he hides the bike because he may fee l guilt and does not want to show it. Guei as a country boy is amazed at the view of Beijing however he gets bullied by Jians friends and cannot protect himself or the bicycle. His characteristics changed at the last scene where he used the rock to hit the person who was wrecking his bike, like Jian hit his ex-girlfriends new boyfriend. This may symbolize how Guei is slowly adapting to the city.Jian is a dynamic character in this film at the beginning he seems ignorant and when his bicycle was stolen his friends always backed him up. However as the story progresses we can see some change misfortune when he introduces himself go Guei. At the end scene when they were being chased, Jian tells Guei to get away from him and when they both reach at a dead end start out out of here Jian says that to Guei because he doesnt want to get him in trouble. This symbolizes friendship and Jians character development because he is trying to protect Guei and doesnt want him to get beaten.This may portray how China is changing into a different country where it cares about its surroundings, Just like Jians character develops into a person who can fght for himself and cares about Guei. Xiaoshuais main idea of the film was to show how China is beginning to develop into a modern city and becoming more independent. His use of Juxtaposition China and how traditional China is moving towards modern China. As China is becoming developed so as the people in China no matter where that person is from he/she is participating in this huge change.