Movie Review - Bicycle Thieves (Italian Neorealism)
Theory Discussion
What is Italian Neo-realism? Well, for the neo-realism is known as the low budget movie and always have the negative thoughts. Therefore, there are many bad habit or things happens in the movie. Cesare Zavattini was the founder of the Italian Neo-realism. The form the Italian cinema is using real people and locations that established with social reality. For example, Zavattini can form the plots as the fake structure of everyday life.
Italian Neorealism has contains a lot of characteristics such as they used grainy film stock in order to giving it its newsreel look. That was the new era after the silent film era. Next, they mostly shot on-location. For example, Antonio's neighbourhood and the visit of the fortune-teller scene which is set on the corner of Via Scarpanto and Via del Gran Paradiso in the suburb of Val Meliana. Back then that building was just constructing. It have not done yet. Moreover, they also shoot a scene on the bridge which is at the Ponte Duca d'Aosta. The scene is shot when Antonio was running around of the town. (David Nicol, n.d.)
Furthermore, they use mixture of professional actors and non-actors as they were act naturally in this film. Not the movie nowadays that many actors were act very unnaturally and it was fake. The only professional actor was the first scene that the man who giving job to the main character. (Eric D Snider, 2015) They also use the reference of contemporary national experience such as many people were looking for their job, selling their goods at the pawn shop. These are things that everyone will do on these days.
The another characteristics of the Italian Neo-realism is they possesses melodramatic aspects. For instance, when the main character has new job and cycling to work at sunrise accompanying with the optimistic melody. For the sad part is when he is returning home in the evening. Music is very important for every film. (Dr Mariana Liz, 2014)
Synopsis
The movie starts with the crowd at the new building and the main character, Antonio Ricci that offered a job but is unaccepted as it requires a bicycle. His wife, Maria takes them to pawn shop for redeem his pawned bicycle. The next day, when he goes to his first job, suddenly there was a young man who steal his bicycle. He chase the snatch with his son, Bruno. They follow him to the church but he slips away from them. They find many places like the football stadium many more but it cannot be found. Antonio and his son, Bruno walk off slowly and sat down beside the street. The scene end with they disappear into the crowd.
Analysis
I think this is not a good movie for me. it is because it is quite boring movie and the movie end with negative scene. This movie was also using the classic Hollywood which is the narrative film for the beginning, the middle and the end. The genre of this film is drama and crime. For the actors' movement and behavior is natural and they did not train for the film, they just act realistic. The costumes for this movie is the old school shirt which is after the world war II and Antonio wear the worker shirt as he going for his first job in the factory.Conclusion
This film have their benefits and disadvantages things. The benefits things is it shows the traditional films that how they shoot so perfectly with the great content. However, the bad things is the movie is very boring that can make everyone sleep. Therefore, when we want to produce a great movie, it must have the interesting contents with a great conflict.
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