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Alisha 2022-06-13 17:28:02
Italian neorealism itself has melodramatic tendencies in the structure of the play, but the biggest difference between it and the rising melodrama of Hollywood plays is that the events inserted in the play do not necessarily increase the drama. It is not necessarily an interlocking causal relationship, so this kind of play will also have a tendency to be difficult to define the protagonist, but it is undoubtedly correct that the film chooses to end the film with the universal character of the...
Rome, Open City Comments
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Enola 2022-10-28 00:07:12
Rome - an undefended city - a memorable storyline with vivid characters
The video is wonderful. A year before the end of World War II, Mussolini fell and Hitler occupied Italy. The Italian Communist Party headed by Togliatti united patriots of all classes to form the National Liberation Front and launched an arduous struggle against the German occupiers. The film...
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Christiana 2022-09-21 12:10:07
Watching Notes: A Duo of History and Myth
Bazin said that the advent of "Rome, the Undefended City" opened up a new phase in which realism and aestheticism have long been opposed to each other on the screen. Not only that, the later Italian neorealist works became narrower and narrower due to the mechanical and photographic stereotype of...
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Marina Mari: Yes. I've had lovers. Of course. What was I supposed to do? How do you think I bought all the furniture, my clothes, everything? With my pay? It's barely enough for stockings and cigarettes. I've gotten by like every other woman. That's life.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: Life is what we want it to be.
Marina Mari: Words! Life is filthy and brutal.
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Marina Mari: I know what poverty is and it scares me. Sure, I could have married a streetcar driver and be starving to death today - me, my children and him.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: Poor Marina. You think happiness means a fancy apartment, nice clothes, a maid, and rich lovers?
Marina Mari: If you'd really loved me, you'd have changed me. But you're just like all the others - no, worse. At least they don't preach to me.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: You're right. Forgive me.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Language: Italian,German,Latin Release date: October 8, 1945