This film is a perfect example of Italian Neorealism. It fallows all the rules of an Italian neorealism film. The film action is just like real life. All the action is what you would expect in every day life. one scene that shows this is when Ricci gets his job. In this scene he tells the guy giving out jobs that his bike is in the shop and right way other people start to yell that they have bikes. This is what would happen in real life that many people need a job you would do any to work just like those men. Another reason why this film fits the Italian neorealism standers is that the setting is always in a working class neighborhoods. In this film their are two types of "working class" neighborhoods.the first one is were the working class actually live. The neighborhood were Ricci lives. in this place their is no work. the second one is were everyone works. You may be thinking that this is not a working class neighborhood but it has the personality as were they live. They have the same personalities because they both have the same pace. In the town were Ricci lives all the people travel in and out of the city as a group. When they hit the town were they all work the same thing happens. The scenes that best show this is after Ricci gets his bike stolen and is waiting for the trolley.
As I had said earlier this film is just like real life. All the people in this film look and act like the people did in that time. Everyone was trying to make a living. As bad as it sounds the boy how stole the bike was doing what he need to do to survive. Another reason why I believe that this film is like real life is that all the characters react to the different events like any on of us would. Their are two scenes that show this well. The first one is when Ricci is trying to get information from the old man. In this scene Ricci keeps following and asking the old man were the boy is that stole his bike. This is what most people would do if they had something stolen from them.the second scene that shows that was when Ricci confronts the boy who stole his bike. In this scene you see the people in the boys community stick up for him. They try to run Ricci out of their town. This is what most people do when someone is bothering someone that they know. Even though the boy deserved it. In this film all the action is just like real life. Every thing that happen is what happens every day people go to work then come home. this film has no real resolution. Witch is good because it would not be an Italian Neorealism film and it would have taken a way from the real life feel. If Ricci would have gotten his bike back the viewer would have been happy but in real life you rarely get your stuff back.
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You point out many of the conventions. Nicely analyzed, and the film gives you that "subjective" experience of feeling the drawn out agony of living poor immediately following a World War. And I like how you point out that stolen things are rarely returned, especially a bicycle. Plus the film points out the ineffectiveness of police in such a situation. Also I think the film really captures a certain sympathetic desperateness and the way life just isn't fair for some people. Nice entry.
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