Shoeshine Comments

  • Francesco 2022-09-25 21:55:34

    One wrong step, one wrong step, the director is still fateful and pessimistic. From the beginning of not distinguishing between you and me, the little friends who care for each other, to the later breakup and even the final destruction, it is just a few provocations by the bad guys. Beautiful things are too fragile. Originally thought that Pasquale beat Giuseppe in the end because he hated iron, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't forgive him for taking away the horses that belonged...

  • Branson 2022-09-19 10:51:02

    The shoe shine boy at the @FilmForum DeSica Film Festival is a bit off topic. It should be a history of abuse by two juvenile delinquent brothers who fell in love and killed each other! Juvenile delinquency and juvenile hall, Desica is really bold, paying attention to such a tricky topic, but supplemented by criticizing the system, trying to restore the survival plight of the bottom-level teenagers,...

  • Weston 2022-09-16 17:18:53

    The poor child, who has prematurely grasped the sinister nature of human nature, is obviously far less thoughtful than the Italian directors of more than half a century ago. There would have been a lot of material to inform Chinese...

  • Nick 2022-09-16 06:24:26

    What the system brings to children, what war brings to people, the outcome is...

  • Kenton 2022-08-20 17:01:51

    8.2/8.5 If we insist that these children are guilty, then we adults must first be...

  • Renee 2022-08-20 13:49:55

    1948 Oscar Honor Award (Best Foreign Language Film). 1. Exposing the murder of the children at the bottom of the prison by the juvenile control office (prison). 2. During the escape from the prison while watching the silent film, the nitric acid film caught fire with the same [Paradise Cinema]. 3. The little boy who died of trampling looked at the sea on the screen, blooming the most beautiful smile in the world. 4. The dead end that new realism will fall into is emerging: a melodramatic mode of

  • Maxie 2022-08-20 12:24:45

    There was "Children Watching Us" before, and "The Bike Stealer" afterwards. Desika often used the innocence of a child's perspective to see the ugliness of the real world. To make it more prominent, "You have to say the opposite when you want it, just like being with your friend, you have to say you hate him", with joy-the horse riding in this movie, the father and son in stealing the bicycle The restaurant-to reflect the more cruel reality, the symbolic bicycle and white horse are helplessly...

  • Jaunita 2022-08-20 11:32:41

    The shoe-shining boy betrayed his brother to be the owner of the horse. Sure enough, if there is no such good thing, he will soon be miserable by the adults. The juvenile school is not a school but a prison. You don’t have to learn a trick. Compared with a more socially critical perspective, the taste is more Dickens. The architectural style of the cell in the main scene is very Mussolini. Meimei Franco Interlenghi was so cute when she was a child, but she didn’t look so good when she grew...

  • Christop 2022-08-20 11:20:34

    The boy struck a stone and died, and the horse flied away. This stroke is better than Lazaro's successor happiness. Desica Bitruffer is much more sophisticated. He can always use the seemingly absolute reality to deduce a story that explains all generations. It is growth and destruction, prison situation, post-war observation, and...

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