One
Today, thirty-one years later, when it comes to this movie, the first thing that makes people feel the most is the style of several leading actors.
Ma Xiaoqing. Different from the cookie-cutter face that has long been fatigued by the audience's aesthetic fatigue, her fleshy baby face at that time fascinated thousands of viewers.
Wang Quan'an. Yes, it is the familiar film director Wang Quan'an. Unexpectedly, he had not yet graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, and he was also a small fresh meat with dark hair and a sexy moustache.
Jia Hongsheng (1967-2010). At that time, shortly after graduating from the Central Academy of Drama, he was as perfect as God's darling. Now, he should probably compete with Zhang Guorong in heaven and ask John Lennon for music lessons.
In "Beijing, You Are Early", they are basically newcomers who have just debuted. For the next thirty years, under the wrapping of their respective destinies, everything was human. Those afterwords are not the focus of this article.
Two
Let's go back to the film itself.
Ai Hong, an ordinary girl. She has no background, no talent, but some vanity, plus a little bit of purity. Ai Hong doesn't like working as a bus conductor who works hard and makes little money. Of course, she was not wrong, she was just one of thousands of ordinary people who wanted to live a good life at that time. At the beginning of the film, she has an ambiguous relationship with Wang Lang, another conductor in the same car, a young man who loves his job.
At that time, Beijing's subway was only Line 1 and Line 2, and buses were still the most important means of public transportation. The buses of that year were very different from now from the inside to the outside, for example, the body is generally three doors and two sections, and the middle often has a soft structure for turning, unlike the current car is a whole. The configuration of the staff on the car is also different from now, except for the driver, generally equipped with a conductor in the front and rear compartments, and there are special seats next to the doors. Of course, there is no security guard with the car, and maintaining order is generally the job of the conductor. At each stop, the conductor looks for passengers one by one to check and sell tickets, which is difficult to imagine in the eyes of young people who are now accustomed to swiping cards and scanning codes.
A new driver, Zou Yongqiang, came to the field and was assigned to work in the same car as Ai Hong and Wang Lang. The bus driver, who is more technical than the conductor, looks more promising, so Ai Hong quickly comes together with Zou Yongqiang. Ai Hong is bent on "going to the sea" to make a lot of money, but the more traditional Zou Yongqiang attaches great importance to his stable job that he "took over" from his father, and he has never been able to resign. Moreover, in his heart, he was not interested in "going to the sea".
In other words, in that era, many people were not rare in the "iron rice bowl" of state-owned units, and even wanted to leave the system, which was probably difficult for young people to understand now.
At that time, young people who longed for the "outside world" almost all had Cui Jian, Qi Qin, Little Tigers, Stallone, Schwarzenegger on the walls of their homes...
Since Zou Yongqiang can't give Ai Hong the life she wants, it is destined to be sooner or later to break up.
In the middle of the film, a personable young handsome man who claims to be a Singaporean student, Chen Mingke, appears, first "hero saves the United States", and then throws in Ai Hong's favor, generously, and gives her a pricey gift. Soon, the handsome man who was both rich and talented conquered Ai Hong.
Here is still to say that Jia Hongsheng deserved to be the most idol young actor of that era, and the dream lover of countless female audiences.
Chen Mingke sang "False Monk" in the discotheque, and it happened that Zou Yongqiang also had a poster of Cui Jian at home. The two echo each other, reflecting the great influence of popular music and rock music, which were new things in that era.
When Ai Hong went to chen Mingke after she became pregnant, she found out that he was a fake international student. It's all just a game and a dream.
At that time, unmarried abortion required a certificate from the employer. Fortunately, a good friend (played by Jiang Shan) helped her to have an abortion by virtue of her relationship.
Seeing that the girl who once loved was defiled by scum, the two ex-boyfriends came together regardless of their previous suspicions. In the alley at night, they "taught" Chen Mingke a lesson in the way of "grandfathers".
A year later, on another winter morning, Ai Hong, who had already "gone to the sea" to become a self-employed person, just happened to board the No. 99 bus and met Wang Lang and Zou Yongqiang, who were still working in their duties. On the platform, Wang Lang and Zou Yongqiang sent Ai Hong off the bus and saw Ai Hong's husband Chen Mingke come to pick her up...
The perspective of the film is very neutral, and it does not deliberately criticize who or what, but calmly shows the confusion, wandering, and struggle of that generation of young people at the crossroads of feelings and life, but at the same time, they have to make their own choices like the bus that is moving forward.
Three
The various realities peculiar to society at that time now seem to be a little ridiculous and a little puzzling; but only those who have experienced it in person will have the feeling of "looking back and suddenly dreaming".