Thieves

André Bazin stated when referring to the renowned classic Bicycle Thieves, “the 'truth' suggested by the film was that, in a situation of social breakdown, the poor had to steal from the poor in order to survive” (51). Bicycle Thieves in its neorealist approach reflects this statement from Bazin in many aspects. We play witness to the cycle of victims turning into thieves described by Bazin from the beginning to the end of this film. In the article assigned with the film, it described the foreshadowing

Perhaps no other character in Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) transforms as subtly as Bruno (Enzo Staiola), the motormouth son of Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani). Conveyed primarily through performance, Bruno’s converts from a hard-working fast-talker with an affinity for mozzarella sandwiches to a silent, weeping witness as his father is driven by despair to commit the same crime that threw their lives into chaos. Despite not appearing until the film’s fifteen minute mark, Bruno assumes the role of

The Bicycle Thieves is an Italian Neorealist black and white movie directed by Vittorio De Sica. The movie is about an unemployed father named Antonio Ricci, who is finding a way to recover the family’s lost bicycle. The bicycle was a very important thing that was owned by the Ricci family, but it was stolen by a young man while Antonio was working. The movie was filmed in an outskirt of Rome. However, this film is different from other films, because it is neither romantic nor sentimental, but it

Bicycle Thieves (1948), tells the story of a poor man and his family, who have struggled while he was unemployed. It begins with him being offered a job of hanging posters that requires the employee to ride a bike, one not provided by the employer. While Antonio has a bike, we find out that he was forced to pawn it in order to feed his family. Getting it back also requires the pawning of items, specifically their sheets, but the act was worth it as he gets the job. However, it is on Antonio's

Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves is a simple story set amidst a post-war Rome. It is a neorealist film characterized by setting the story amongst the poor and working class. The film surrounds the difficult economical and moral conditions of post WWII Italy, reflecting the conditions of everyday life: Poverty and desperation, with the implicit message that in a better society, wealth would be more evenly distributed. The plot is simple, surrounding a man, his son and a bicycle. The film tells

Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vito De Sica is a classic of the Neorealist film movement. The film depicts a story of a father and son and their journey together to find the main character’s; Antonio Ricci’s; stolen bike. On a baseline level, this film shows a sense of mystery and action, all surrounded by the family unit. The family unit divides into a few prevalent themes within the film such as the bond of husband and wife, the bond of the father and son and the karma philosophy

Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film, released in 1948, directed by Vittorio De Sica. Listed as one of the top fifteen most influential films according to Turner Classic Movies (TCM), ranked number four in “The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema” by Empire magazines in 2010, also nominated for the Oscar as the Best Writing, Screen play. And awarded with the New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFFC) and a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Film in the 50’s. Bicycle thieves is considered one of the most influential

ignorance and apathy towards those negatively affected by generally romanticized events is the central theme of Vittorio de Sica’s neorealist work The Bicycle Thieves. This argument is created by accurate incidental music, stark contrast in shots, and fluid, human camera tracking throughout the film. Every background and still of The Bicycle Thieves tells its own story, via the mise-en scen technique. One of the first scenes is the pawn store scene, where Maria turns their bedsheets in order to redeem

Bicycle Thieves (1948) is the story of a father and his desperate search for his stolen bicycle, without which he faces poverty and an inability to support his young family. The film was directed by Vittorio De Sica, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cesare Zavattini, based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini. André Bazin (1971) notably champions the view that it is a 'true masterpiece' of Italian neorealism, to which it was a relative late comer, in fact he insists that De Sica had reignited

Jacob Spence September 17th, 2014 ITA1113 Antonio Ricci: The Bicycle Thief Antonio Ricci, the protagonist of Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, inhabits an Italy torn apart by the Second World War. The decaying city streets and mass poverty is a far cry from the society united under communism envisioned by earlier neorealist filmmakers. De Sica uses Ricci to critique capitalism, as well to document the struggle of the masses in Post War Italy. The theft of his Bicycle sends Ricci, along with De