Beijing City Movie (1988-2011) The City People's Spiritual Crisis

With the deepening of reform and opening up, the Chinese economy gradually develops and prosperity. There are many urban movies which reflect the emotion and mental attitute of urbanites。As the capital of first-tier city, which film industry is in prime position of the country, therefore the movies reflect Beijing urban appearance on quantity and quality are the most outstanding ,too. This paper selects the Beijing urban films to study in the process of urbanization, the spiritual crisis urbanites.The thesis mainly contains three parts.The first chapter discusses urbanitem gradually revive from thousands of years of the traditional consciousness. Olders mostly cant accept the impact of modernisation, strongly rejected modern,most of the young generation chase and cater modern, but they are also suffered from the parents who represent the traditional way, they also hesitation, confusion, struggle.And those people between traditional and modern are irresolution.However, society will keep moving forward, people how to face more and more developed city, need their rational thought, need more social correct guidance.And womens self-awareness also gradually awake, then women daring to challenge, get rid of male attachment to men, and it cause a male panic. The opposition between the sexes seemes going.The second chapter discusses further deepen as the reform and opening up, especially since the 1990s, China society into a comprehensive development, Beijing, Shanghai, shenzhen, guangzhou and some other metropolis are fully committed to advocate economic benefit, conesponding is working hard to make money and to urbanite effort not stopping.Because urbanite in knowledge, intelligence, technology, opportunities and so on various aspects difference, polarization. Facing the city huge survival pressure, some people in order to meet the expanding material desires, will ethic morality etc behind, desperations, into the whirlpool desire.Simultaneously along with the continuous development of society, various media communication way in metropolitan unblocked convenience, western values gradually edification our urbanite, the concept of value, marriage urbanite concept, etc have changed a lot.In city, there are a lot of bad behaviours. Opportunities everywhere the metropolis became outsiders yearning paradise, the influx of floating population was feeling with threats of disgust urbanite to rejection.And in outlanders eyes, urbanite is also selfish, full of evil, incompatible with outsiders urbanite become city a difficult problem.The third chapter discusses in spiritual pain urbanite experiences of torture, initiation out of pure childhood memories, yearning, of love to pure friendship, traditional neighborhoods yearning, urbanite that gives a kind of nostalgia complex developments. Only the discontent will be nostalgic, explain in enjoying the modern urbanite bring of pleasant sensation, the heart but miss innocent youth, foreshadowing the pure feeling, the current urban modern urbanite spiritual world sterility.