Shoeshine Comments

  • Federico 2023-01-12 02:46:26

    It begins with a running horse and ends with a horse that gradually moves away. Horses are the hope in the heart of a child, but this hope finally came to nothing in that chaotic and withered age. The horses disappeared into the night, just like their bleak childhood. A compassionate film whose themes remain vibrant and thought-provoking in this new...

  • Stevie 2023-01-01 21:12:28

    Later Italians made films in the United States with this...

  • Patsy 2022-12-29 11:34:54

    Emotional accumulation is not like Ladri di biciclette reaching a high level quickly, but it is almost carefully rendered layer by layer, and the later process is vigorous, back and forth, and the ending is still very...

  • Federico 2022-12-27 22:32:21

    I thought it was a "Bicycle Stealer", but I didn't expect it to be a "Four Hundred Downs". Notes: The cul-de-sac to which Neorealism will fall is beginning to take shape: Competitive melodrama mode. The plot progresses very modestly, zooming in a little bit, all the way to the irreversible...

  • Vaughn 2022-12-26 15:53:57

    The most touching story of good friends I have ever seen. A pair of little friends who make a living by shining shoes romantically want to buy a horse that belongs to them and ride together, and help one of their brothers without knowing it. I got money to buy a horse from illegal activities, but went to jail. I was detained separately in prison. The guards pretended to torture one and forced the other to confess his brother... I can't go on anymore, my heart is...

  • Adelbert 2022-12-24 17:54:21

    It's not the aftermath of a war movie, it's human...

  • Marcel 2022-12-19 05:29:52

    Watch carefully, another depressing film. The plot is ups and downs, one wave after another, but the people watching it are getting worse and worse. The two boys are like brothers and like lover. One misunderstanding leads to another misunderstanding. Otherwise, the young age is too young, and selfish people will have no way to escape. Not only do they miss the opportunity of the eldest brother again and again, but finally the white horse that represents the two's beautiful yearning angers the...

  • Destinee 2022-12-18 15:26:05

    20th Best Foreign Language Film, Desica,...

  • Kaya 2022-12-09 20:57:07

    Neorealism will never give an answer or point to it. It calmly presents tragedy and an unknown destiny. It describes the post-war withered society from the perspective of a child. Simple and innocent trust is provoked and misunderstood. External intervention is also inevitable in the environment of the times, but to be honest, I don't know why this movie didn't impress me very...

  • Rebeka 2022-12-07 09:44:06

    The youth version of Prison Situation, or the other way around, Lin Lingdong's "Prison Situation" filmed more than 40 years later is an adult version of the shoe shine boy. Imprisonment, confrontation, rumors, whistleblowing, brutality, prison break, all elements are included. The Italian and Hong Kong directors are probably the two most proficient brothers and sisters in the world. Rise from the white horse and end with the white horse. Use speechless animals to witness the tragedy of...

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!

Shoeshine

Director: Vittorio De Sica

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