Shoeshine Comments

  • Kiley 2023-07-29 15:02:08

    Damn it, how come the ones I added before are automatically deleted? ! Whoever goes to jail is a scum, I'll cut off ties with whoever!...

  • Delaney 2023-07-13 05:16:13

    In the first Desica film, compared with the same year's "War", it seems that in addition to the core and aesthetic style, Desica can make the work more vivid and full than Rossellini, and the natural viewing experience is more comfortable. I just want to say one thing about the reality of "Shoe Shine Boys". The film reflects the social reality of Italy after the war, but it does not adopt the model of "all villains" to make adults (oppressors) hideous, and children (be The oppressor) is...

  • Cyril 2023-07-08 17:47:17

    A very mature neo-realistic film, I remember writing a dissertation in college and I was very impressed with this. What I like the most is the rhythm of this movie. Because it is in an early stage, there is nothing to "reverse". Instead, it is a natural rhythm. The whole movie relies on the characters to tell the story, not deliberately protruding the plot to render some kind of rhythm. Emotions, and there is no current flood of restraint that can be glimpsed by the creator's careful thinking....

  • Tremaine 2023-06-30 20:49:11

    "Do poor children have no future?" Really... Where is the brilliance of humanity at the end, only the dash of hope. As the opening film of the Desica topic of this museum, it is really deserted - the weather is cold, the audience is small, and there are even no fixed-frame poster pictures on the big screen. It is said that there are surrounding areas in January? When this topic was released, President K jokingly said, "At the end of the year, the museum will present a special exhibition of the...

  • Lexus 2023-06-28 20:21:26

    It can bring wonderful shots that recall the bicycle thief, and the more beautiful the picture is, the more beautiful the picture is, although it may not be all the director's credit - how the well-built streets of Rome are really photographed and how photogenic, modern architecture is completely powerless to compete. At this time, the master is good at telling stories. Fortunately, there are two children. If they are older, it must be a dog-blooded love drama. Because the couple protects each...

  • Bradford 2023-06-25 21:36:47

    I rekindled hope time and time again, hoping to see these two children riding across the street as they did at the beginning, but in the end it was impossible. Desika may be using such a desperate determination to question the cruelty of reality. The plot advances in a restrained manner, a little enlarged, until the irreversible...

  • Loren 2023-06-21 22:37:48

    Happy beginning, sad ending. The clear and innocent eyes of children became violent and distrustful. What ruined them? It's...

  • Jessyca 2023-06-15 04:57:30

    [Desica Retrospective] Children are still like this, the social style is...

  • Charlene 2023-06-10 09:14:00

    #filmarchive# With the great help of screenwriter Cesare Zavatini, De Sica gently depicts how those simple souls face social injustice, unemployment and loneliness. They don't try to rebel, they just try to survive. De Sica is so careful with people who are so humble that they even apologize for themselves. In contrast to his gentle and honest handling of petty people, Ken Lodge is indignantly...

  • Gerry 2023-06-06 10:46:45

    A masterpiece of Italian criticism of reality. The influence of theatre on earlier films can still be...

Extended Reading

Shoeshine quotes

  • Giuseppe Filippucci: Whoever invented the elevator is a genius.

    Pasquale Maggi: Tell me about it. I slept in one for three months.

  • Pasquale Maggi: [as the film projector is being set up in the boys' prison] In here they feed us, they shelter us, they give us clothes, and they even entertain us. What else could we want? This is paradise!

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Director: Vittorio De Sica

Language: Italian,English Release date: August 26, 1947