Taking the death of the father as the threshold, before death is typical neo-realism, the content is ordinary people struggling for basic living conditions; after death, it tends to inner realism, showing that the child is homeless from a certain distance, which is material, It is also a spiritual home. Here Rossellini broke through the limitation that the Italian New Reality only described the lives of Italians. However, this practice shows that the aesthetic ideas of Neorealism are also applicable to Germany, because Germany, like Italy, was controlled by fascism before the war and the people were struggling. Later, it was filled with broken tiles and ruins and the hearts of the people who were also abandoned.
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