In the movie Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle, the soy sauce woman is mentioned at the beginning. Later in the film, the significance of her identity is pointed out. What does this character mean to the fil

In the movie Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle, the soy sauce woman is mentioned at the beginning. Later in the film, the significance of her identity is pointed out. What does this character mean to the film?

The soy sauce woman is a working girl who comes to work in the city played by Zhou Xun. She first appears in front of the floor-to-ceiling window facing the street, wearing beautiful clothes and smoking a cigarette. The fellow villagers were very envious. In fact, they used this beautiful woman to outline the basic image of a city person, who is arrogant, lives a superior life, and has nothing to do. But in fact, underneath these beautiful appearances is the vanity and self-deception of a working girl.

At the end of the film, things are finally revealed. The elegant "lady" turned out to be just a working girl who went to the city like Agui and Agui's fellow villagers. She secretly wore and sold clothes while the owner was away for the sake of vanity, and was later arrested. The owner kicked him out of the house.

After watching it, I felt that Zhou Xun’s performance was very expressive. I felt that the director wanted to use this somewhat neurotic character to illustrate the essence of urban life, the emptiness and loneliness under false prosperity. It seems that as long as anyone puts on a beautiful coat, he is successful and becomes a city person. In addition to revealing the hypocrisy and self-foolishness of the identity of urbanites, it also conveys the mental erosion of the city on an ordinary migrant worker.

Soy Sauce Girl is just a side branch of the movie, but it also serves the theme of the huge gap between city and countryside, city people and country people, rich and poor. The city is a huge empty city. People are empty containers, full of sorrow