Roger Ebert gave Desi a high rating in "The Great Movie" and also a high evaluation of this movie. He saw in the biography of an actress that this well-known actress had watched Desi in the cinema that year. Ka’s debut work "Shoe Shine Boy", weeping out of the cinema, heard a female college student next to her boyfriend say "I really can't see anything special about this movie". Pauline Kyle wrote that I don’t know whether to cry for the movie or for these indifferent audiences.
This film reminds me of a prose poem "The Eyes of the Poor" in Baudelaire's "The Melancholy of Paris", which was later used by Liu Tianzhao to write a commentary on the picture of the day on the Southern Metropolis. The picture of the day shows two children having fun in a broken bathtub on an abandoned construction site.
"A pair of young lovers had a good day. In the evening, they enjoyed good food in the cafe. At this time, a poor father showed up outside the window with his two young sons. They opened the eyes of their poor people and looked at the coffee shop. They were surprised, envious and even pleased, but they were daunting. The young man in the cafe was ashamed of this look and the luxurious enjoyment in front of him, while his lover was very disgusted and hoped to drive them away. The young man was disappointed. It turned out that even lovers could not have a common soul. So he said that he hated her. (By Liu Tianzhao)
This director is an Italian Communist Party and a leftist. I often see people claiming to be leftist and some people called leftist. Go and see, P's leftist! China has no real leftists. What is left? Leftists are the kind of people who are penniless and worry about the world. They are the kind of people who always worry about their comfortable life as long as there are still people on the earth suffering.
Just like the nobleman who led the revolution in Les Misérables, France has a lot of naive and innocent leftists. They are aristocrats, but they don’t see anyone suffering. There are some real leftists in Britain (like Orwell, like Strange Grace). Actor in the movie), will feel uneasy about his comfort.
Compared with these people, those who claim to be or are called leftists have at most left the fur.
De Sica’s film is sad but not sad, not angry, not complaining, and is just right. This is what the real left will do, and the pseudo-left is best at class struggle.
This is a sad story, but there is no cheap sensation and accusation, so moving, anger and accusation are just for people to vent and stimulate the extremes in people's hearts. This kind of film is suitable for the revolution of workers, peasants and soldiers. Not suitable for a lifetime.
In the barren Italy after the war, Ricci was unemployed for many years, and finally got a job opportunity. He needed a bicycle. He was his wife’s dowry and redeemed his bicycle. He went to work happily and lived a full life. He gained new hope, but unexpectedly the bicycle was stolen on the first day of work. He chased him a long way, but let the thief escape. This was his only hope in life. Fortunately, the next day was the weekend, so he and his son started a bicycle-searching trip with friends, almost all over Rome. Later, he found the thief but couldn’t get the bicycle back, and so did the thief. A young man who is unemployed for survival, the police can't do anything about it. In desperation, he struggled several times, went to steal a bicycle, and was arrested on the spot.
The climax of the ending scene was that he was arrested on the spot and slapped and beaten. His son rushed into the crowd and screamed. Then the crowd dispersed. The owner of the bicycle did not hold him accountable. Amidst the verbal abuse, he held his son's Hand, walk towards the way home.
Because it was a work directed by the Communist Party and so sympathetic to the proletariat, the film was allowed to be shown in China at that time, and it was called the best work that generation could see. (Although it is used for one-sided interpretation and political propaganda).
Today, after seeing this movie, I shed tears several times. I saw the upset and irritated dad beat up his son. The son left his father aggrievedly and said with a cry, why are you hitting me? When I want to go back to tell my mother; when my son rushes into the crowd and crying to protect his father.
I have never personally experienced these scenes, but I have seen many of them.
The movie reminds me of my childhood. I don’t remember how old I was. In late autumn, I went with my father late at night to pick up sweet potato vines in the ditch on both sides of the road and came back to dry and feed the cows. We each pulled a car and walked in the dim moonlight. The car was heavy and heavy. The weather is very cold, but I am very hot.
This kind of film clings to the audience and feels the emotions and sorrows of the movie characters. Let people see the helpless and miserable life, but also let people see the hope of life. Although they have never recovered their bicycles, there is still hope in life, because he has a good wife, a good son, and a good friend, because of the bike thief. And his accomplices are not heinous murderers.
Finally, I want to say that I think several Italian Communists are very good, such as De Sica, Da Riofer, and Pasolini.
The same is the Communist Party, so how big is the gap in life? Why are all bad luck spread by us? Any species will mutate in China.
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