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Summary: Unemployment was extremely high in Rome after World War II. People are queuing up to find work. The protagonist Antonio Ricci, who has been unemployed for two years, is lucky to get a job posting a pictorial, but the job requires a bicycle. Unfortunately, he has already pawned the bicycle. Antonio's wife, Maria, redeemed the bike with the bed from the wedding. Unfortunately, the bicycle was stolen on the first day of work, and the hopeless Anthony took his son Bruno to start a hopeless journey to find a bicycle...
I watched the movie "Bicycle Thief" with tears in my eyes
The last scene: The father held his son's little hand tightly, tears could not help rolling down, and continued to walk forward
I didn't realize the movie was over until "fine" appeared on the screen, but they were still swept along by the crowd. With a kind of naive optimism, I firmly believe that the protagonist will overcome the difficulties and start a new life. Even empathizing with the protagonist of stealing the bike and wishing him success, it seems that the problem is solved.
It always seems that no one cares about the "after" issue, failure or success is an ending, and no one cares about what happens after failure. The film attempts to show the "after" scene, without suggesting a solution. But it is this kind of "unfinished" that highlights the sharpness of the contradiction and the unsolvable problem.
When Antonio found out that the bicycle was stolen, he even went to chase after the bicycle, but he could only go back because of the rampant criminal gang. Especially when he finally realized that it was irreversible, Antonio ran out of the shadow of the bridge hole, the sun was shining on his face, his face was full of nervous and anxious sweat, and his eyes were full of helplessness and pain. I think it was at that moment that he started to believe in "saints". He began to question fate, but secretly believed in fate.
This loss means the loss of dreams, the deprivation of the future, the continuation of poverty and the reduction of life. He did not intend to offend fate, why did fate make fun of him? Everyone who is frustrated or leftover or loser will have this sense of loss, and will have doubts about the hopelessness of life, but who does not then enter the next battle? The process of trying to find the bicycle is a difficult process that gives oneself a chance but knows that the chances of finding it are illusory. Stealing a bicycle is considered a "traitor," but how many people can live with this loss? The title of the Italian version is Ladri di biciclette, and "thief" is a plural, obviously everyone is a "thief" in a society where there is nowhere to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Little Bruno unswervingly followed his father all the way to find, and also caused the most classic "mistake" in film history: Little Bruno followed his father through the streets, and he accidentally fell while crossing the road. Although there is no such arrangement in the script, the director kept this passage. Every expression of the little actor is serious and in place, whether it is running in the rain to find a bicycle, or being angry with his father and wanting to complain to his mother, or eating brushed bread with satisfaction when eating in a restaurant, and pulling little hands at the last moment, It is precisely in this way that little Bruno gave his father hope and the desire to steal.
Another protagonist of the film is the bicycle, a popular means of transportation at the time, a tool for the protagonist to survive, and an element throughout the film, the appearance and disappearance of bicycles (isolated or in piles, intact or fragmented). Putting it at the fair) was like a nightmare in the eyes of young Bruno and Antonio. It is the beginning of hope and the beginning of despair. It is not just the thing, but the future.
Still wanting to go back to the ending, the person whose bicycle was stolen looked at Antonio and Bruno and waved his hands, not to pursue the previous matter. Isn't this a happy ending? Although it did not give the fruit of hope, it still gave hope that everyone who was stolen "bicycles" would not become bicycle thieves again.
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