Extended Reading
  • Thurman 2022-10-01 22:30:35

    It's not skill, it's style

    The chattering Italian, the occasional English subtitles are mixed with the occasional Chinese subtitles~~ I seriously doubt that the subtitles are created by translation software. Arrest is translated into "accusation", and confession is translated into "accusation"... The Chinese and English...

  • Jane 2022-06-13 21:10:32

    [Film Review] Rome, Open City (1945) 8.6/10

    In Roberto Rossellini's neorealism pièce-de-résistance ROME, OPEN CITY, melodrama and cinéma-vérité are magically blended together to elicit oceanic amazement and pathos, it is a panegyric of ordinary Italian citizens' bravery and heroism under Nazi occupation, and in an exceptional note, religious...

Rome, Open City quotes

  • Major Bergman: You clearly aim to harm the Reich and its armed forces.

    Don Pietro: That wasn't exactly my aim.

    Major Bergman: Then what would you call a man who not only provides refuge and forged documents to Italians plotting attacks on our soldiers but even shelters German deserters?

    Don Pietro: A man who humbly seeks to practice charity.

    Major Bergman: He's a traitor who must be punished, subject to the military law of the Reich.

    Don Pietro: God will judge.

  • Major Bergman: How these Italians scream!