"Steal" was filmed in 1948, before Steadicam was invented, and the steady picture shows the level of photographers.
The film takes a low-level man on the verge of unemployment, Ricci and his son looking for a bicycle as a clue, showing step by step the living conditions of the Italian low-level people after the war. After losing the bicycle, the wonderful fantasy that Rich had described earlier collapsed suddenly. After many hours of chasing, he finally caught a thief, but he was coaxed out in the noise of all beings. In the end, Richie was finally washed over the last line of defense in his heart by the tide of endless despair-his principled system was thoroughly collapsed.
Richie went through two failures in his search for a bike, the first time in the bike market, and the most interesting was the old man the second time, when most people thought Richie should have gotten the whereabouts of the thief from the old man , as if deliberately against us, the old man just didn't tell Richie the whereabouts of the thief, but the "Virgin" who we thought was useless gave Richie a chance. This roller coaster-like sense of suspense appears many times in the film. For example, when the father and son were in conflict, Rich heard the news that someone was drowning by the river, and our hearts were also lifted by the dramatic tension of this bridge. Later, when he learned the truth, he was relieved. Going forward, when the bicycle that Ritchie just bought was in the "Notre Dame" house, a few young thugs mixed into the painting, and most people thought that this was the so-called "bicycle thief", but the director did the opposite. , these roller coaster-like suspense provide the film with enough dramatic tension for the audience.
"Steal" tells the tragicomedy of a people at the bottom in a straightforward way and simple camera language. Documentary-style real scenes, honest performances by non-professional actors, and the finishing touches of emergencies in all kinds of real scenes, all show the unparalleled charm of life. The director told the world with this simple film that a great artist should be on an equal footing with life.
The documentary-style real scene, from a purely objective point of view, perfectly reproduces the unemployment and social contradictions of the Italian people after the war. When a child begging on the street with an accordion was kicked away alive, the warmth of strangers disappeared from Italy. , the post-war incompleteness is evident.
In the entire social system, whether officials or people, we have seen its numb side. No matter which war it is, the good side of human nature will generally have two situations, one is to be infinitely smoothed out, and the other is to be infinitely enlarged. Of course, this is very rare.
If this film is put into our time, it is inevitable to consider the issue of education. The promotion factor brought about by education has become the cause. Even today after 73 years, there will still be such images, and there will always be such images. There are so many unemployed homeless people, and countless unemployed homeless people are making countless countless thieves, and they experience the sadness of the ebb and flow in the world. This is the enduring universal significance of the film.
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