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World Film History Lesson Screening, revisiting Italian neorealist director De Sica's Bicycle Thief (1949) and Umberto D (1952). The struggle, humiliation and despair of ordinary people in a flawed social structure. Antonio takes his son Bruno all over the city looking for a stolen bicycle - a hope for a family life; old Mr. Umberto is driven out by his landlady and wants to meet his dog...Similar stories are still going on, and the movie is not just a movie.

In The Bicycle Thief, De Sica is suspicious of any political force, be it the Communist Party or a religious one, and especially distrusts and ridicules the bespectacled (intellectual?). The glasses-wearing speakers in the underground air-raid shelter are not friendly to Antonio, and their empty political ideas are far from ordinary people's daily disasters; father and son hide from the rain and meet a group of priests who speak German without anyone else, and the two leading ones also wear glasses. Religion represents hypocrisy

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