Bicycle Thieves: The Unspoken Allure of Communism Bicycle Thieves is an exemplary demonstration of Italian neorealism that seeks to use non-professional actors to illustrate the struggle of average people surviving under a Fascist government. De Sica ’s use of film techniques such as close-ups heightens the effect of his neo-realist aesthetic‚ especially seen in his street-level depictions of Rome in the aftermath of World War II. The poverty and despair captured by De Sica ’s cinematography
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Vittorio De Sica’s the Bicycle Thief is undoubtedly one of the best pieces of Italian Neo Realist Cinema ever made. The movie‚ based in Post World War II Rome tells the humanistic story of a family man - Antonio (portrayed by Lamberto Maggiorani) and his struggle to survive and make ends meet. Using non-professional actors to portray the lives and emotions of ordinary working class men‚ suffering from poverty ‘The Bicycle Thief’ satisfies the basic features of Italian Neo Realism. The story begins
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was The Bicycle Thieves (1948‚ Vittorio De Sica)‚ which took one man’s trouble in finding his lost bike as a mere slice of the greater tragedies which were occurring everyday in Rome due to the wrecked economy. The picture broke many traditions of film to date‚ but in a somewhat playful way‚ without somber or depressive tones. Postmodernism‚ the movement in which unorthodoxy and bizarreness were encouraged‚ therefore is the most accurate denomination to give to this film. The Bicycle Thieves uses postmodern
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Italian Neorealism was an art movement that played with the conventions of classical Hollywood Realism. Through Bicycle Thieves‚ the viewer can pull out elements of both Neorealism and classical Hollywood Realism. Both Bicycle Thieves and Breathless demonstrate Realist elements to their stories that bring upon excitement and dramatically powerful films. Due to the combination of Neorealism and Hollywood Realism‚ aesthetic and narrative effects were shown throughout the films and became a success
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Bicycle Thieves Ladri di biciclette directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1948 is one of the best white and black movies ever. It won the BAFTA as best movie of any source and others 14 prices. In 1949 won the Silver Ribbon as Best Movie‚ Best Cinematographie‚ Best Director‚ Best Screenplay‚ Best Score at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. The story is pretty simple. Is about a guy who was stole his bike and he needs the bike to work and he decide to try to find it with his son and
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Bicycle Thieves Reflection In the film Bicycle Thieves‚ directed by Desica‚ the use of realism is portrayed. This film is taken place in Italy during 1984; it revolves around the main character Antonio and his son Bruno. After getting his bicycle stolen from a man‚ Antonio goes on a quest with his son in order to find the bicycle he and his wife pawned in order to help him with work. In the end‚ Antonio becomes desperate for a bicycle because of the words a seer he had gone to see concerning his
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The ‘Bicycle Thieves’ was released in 1948 and directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is often associated with the neo-realism film movement. Neo-realist elements helps it succeed as a humanist film with its honest comments on the social conditions in post-war Italy. The film is heavily impacted by the state of affairs in Italy and around the globe. Characterised by the war‚ unemployment‚ labour control‚ poverty and social injustice; the ‘Bicycle Thieves’ shows the poverty of the Roman working-class and
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Bicycle Thieves One of the most groundbreaking movements in global cinema history was Italian Neo-realism. Coming after the devastating Second World War‚ Italian Neo-Realism aims to magnify the troubles of the working class in a crumbled Europe for the world to see on the silver screen. Neo-Realist films tend to star non-professional actors‚ use real locations as backdrops along with real people as extras‚ and usually have children playing major roles in the film. This movement aimed to emphasize
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Ladri di Biciclette is translated as bicycle thieves or bicycle thief it is the story of Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani)‚ a man who waits in line for an available job at a time where jobs are few and scarce. An opportunity arises‚ but Antonio needs a bicycle. Antonio says he has a bicycle even though he has recently pawned it for cash. Antonio and his wife‚ Maria (Lianella Carell)‚ decide to pawn their sheets to get the bike out of the hockshop. The next day Antonio starts his job‚ plastering
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that both animal and human being always have‚ and they cannot deny which is the adaptation of survival. The movie “Bicycle Thieves” is director Vittorio De Sica told the viewers a story of a poor father‚ who was searching for his stolen bicycle‚ and without the bicycle he will lose his job‚ which was to be the salvation of his young family. At the end‚ he cannot even find his bicycle; instead to steal from other but he was fail. “All the quiet on the Western Front” is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque
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