Analysis Of `` I Love Beijing `` - 1075 Words

Abstract: Normally, space is thought of as distance or an expansive area, available or unoccupied. It is almost never limited to just a single definition. If one were not attentive to the way urbanization can depict space revolved around objects or people on earth and patterns within their arrangement, it would be very confusing to distinguish space from freedom. For this journal entry, I will base an analysis of space on the film, â€Å"I love Beijing† with references from the article, â€Å"Money, space, and Time†, by Harvey. â€Å"I love Beijing† is a remarkable film about city space and in my humble opinion, human responses to it. The main character, a young man in his late twenties, drives a taxi for a living. Apparently, his occupation or lack of†¦show more content†¦Yet the lengthy periods the wife vociferously complained her husband worked, reflects a paradox of money representing social labor time, while its rise transform and shape the meaning of time. A segment from Harvey’s article, â€Å"Role of space, money, and time,† explicitly describe these very factors to be influential for understanding complications in urban life. â€Å"The analysis of money, space, and time in the context of capital accumulation with its dominant class relations reveals much about the dynamics of the urban process, its inner tensions, and the significance of urbanization to capitalism s evolution.† Analytically, there were other indicators relating to how Desi’s job, created â€Å"emotional space† between the main character and his wife. One interesting observation worth noting is the noticeable pattern in how the husband acquired relationships through his occupation as a taxi driver. The women he built short-lived relationships with had insecurities and struggled financially. Tension or rather emotional breakdowns are likely to occur as it did for the first wife and waitress who demonstrated different outcries for the same experiences with loneliness, confusion, and depression from living harsh realities in the poorest parts of cities. It is evident, however that when urban life falls short on its promis es to fulfill happiness for its lower income residents, the man who is considered the most privileged member of a