only real

Napoleon 2022-07-04 23:37:50

The rise of Italian neorealism has made people around the world pay attention to the documentary nature of films.

Rossellini expresses his most realistic brushstrokes about the reality of post-war Italy.

The film consists of 6 stories, through which Rossellini focuses on the hard life and struggle history of various people under fascist rule.

The dark tones, the gray sky, the surrounding environment of the four walls of the family, the ruined walls burned by the fire, a reality that is more real than reality, and crueler than cruelty is coming.

Rossellini did not deliberately tell anything, but just recorded, recorded what he saw and heard, and expressed it in the most sincere and true attitude.

He left us endless thinking, what kind of truth the war has brought to people

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  • Joe - the American MP (episode II: Napoli): Just three days ago, a little hoodlum like you, stole my shoes, right off my feet. If I could get my hands on him and I will and when I do - I'll boot him in his pants so hard he'll see stars!

  • Joe - the American MP (episode II: Napoli): Why do you steal, huh? Why do you steal, huh? Let's have a look. I wouldn't be surprised to find a battleship in your pocket.