Life's Greatest Reality - Survival

Bianka 2022-04-21 09:01:44

"The Bicycle Thief" vividly portrays the long-term unemployed and down-and-out Romans' basic desire to survive through work, and the psychology of being able to eat!
Ritchie worked hard to get a job posting posters, but one of the hard conditions for that job was owning a bicycle. Richie's wife pawned the dowry sheet and redeemed Richie's bike. The smiling faces of the couple as they cycle lightly through the streets of Rome, gives us a glimpse of hope for a family, a young couple, to start a new life.
But on the first day of work, the bike was stolen. Richie made no gains through legal means such as calling the police. The harvest was only filed at the police station, and the bike still had to be found by Richie himself. The police didn't realize that a seemingly ordinary bicycle maintained the fate of the family...
Rich and his son, shuttled through the used car market, looking for a car part by part, in the mountains of bicycles and parts Looking in the middle, the urgent and melancholy eyes, the scene where the child uses the bright eyes of the child to help his father find the car, all move people's hearts.
Rich literately searches for his survival tool, the bicycle, but the cruelty of reality overwhelms him. He insisted on questioning the old man who had spoken to the thief, and he could do nothing to pin his hopes on the so-called gods, but the gods sipped coffee and said innocuous words in a pampered manner, but calmly accepted Rich and the poor in Rome and handed them over The pious, helpless crumpled banknotes, the gods can't imagine Richie's dilemma...
The search for a car has failed again and again, but Richie has always taken his son to run on the streets of Rome persistently and frantically, they are helping them They are looking for not only a bicycle, but a young man who wants to take on the responsibilities of a husband, father, and family through his own efforts, and live a well-fed life. Eating, that's all, but the reality still doesn't give Richie a chance!
He has a conscience and abides by morals. When he is ready to fight back and forth, it is his heart that fights fiercely with the cruel reality. In the end, he was still defeated by the cruel, inhuman reality, and he chose to steal other people's cars and continue to keep his job. But he was unfortunate. He was accused, pushed, beaten and scolded in front of his son. The dignity and image of a father disappeared in front of his son!
I lament that such realistic films were made in Italy in the 1940s. They dared to introspect and touch pain. It is precisely because of this that they promoted the development and progress of the country. I call on China to also make some realistic-style films, and stop showing off white, rich, beautiful, tall, rich, and handsome. After all, that is not the life of the common people, but the lives of the vast majority of the people!

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Extended Reading
  • Theron 2021-11-13 08:01:22

    The unpretentious lens is full and can serve the psychological activities of the characters and the reality of life in Italy after the war. The film is known as its realist style and the history of filming has finally found resources for many years. Unfortunately, its revolutionary nature does not seem to have shocking power today. Early films The means of expression seem to be too simplistic now, and I am still distressed: Is it possible that the key to the interpretation of the classics is always missing?

  • Brandy 2021-11-13 08:01:22

    Looks very aggrieved, the protagonist is really a typical honest and useless person

Bicycle Thieves quotes

  • Antonio Ricci: [At a restaurant, he and his son notice a nearby table occupied by an apparently well-off family who are eating quite well] To eat like that, you'd have to earn at least a million a month.

  • La Santona: [Addressing a young man seated before her, apparently seeking advice on his love life] You must plant your seeds in another field. Do you understand what I mean?

    Young man seeking advice: No, I don't understand.

    La Santona: It's simple, my boy. What good is planting seeds if the soil rejects them? You plant, but don't gather. Understand?

    Young man seeking advice: I haven't understood a word.

    La Santona: [Becoming impatient] She doesn't love you! Forget her!

    La Santona: [Pausing for effect] Dear boy, you're very ugly. Yes, ugly. There are so many other women... Go and plow another field!