Ladri di biciclette (Italian), also know as Bicycle Thieves is an Italian neorealism film, which directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1948. The producer of this film is Ercole Graziadei, Sergio Bernardi and Count Cicogna. This film received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950 and it also the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics. Until now, no matter it is a very old film, it also as a great film to influence the movie nowadays.
Italian neorealism is one of the art styles that cause by World War II, which the main reason that devastated the national cinemas tremendously and it affects the stability of the cinema's economic. The Nazis destroyed the prewar European economy for setting up their own economy threshold. However, it hasn't maintained for a long time, the Nazi economy was eliminated when the end of World War II. Mashall Plan rebuilt the European national industries and allowed the production to develop and become large-scale. Another side, Italy's production facilities were intact because of early surrender when facing World War II. In 1922, Benito Mussolini takes over permission to make the Italian cinema was used as a form of propaganda, educating Italians with documentaries and newsreels. Benito Mussolini set up Cinecitta studios in Rome and he took charge of the studios and doubled Italian production within a year in 1937. Cesare Zavattini, who is the theoretical founder of neo-realism in 1942. He was suggesting the new form of Italian Cinema that abolishes contrived and planned plots, so he used the real people and location to build up the relation with contemporary social reality. Cesare Zavattini looked at the plot as a fake structure, the professionals' actors have complemented the lies. The first of the Neorealist film is Rome, Open City. It mostly shot on-location, which also in the ruins of the post-war era as the setting of the film. The grainy film stock is also has been used, it can give the newsreels look. About the sound, it was recorded and added after the shoots, it can also know as editing. The actor in this kind of film is a mixture of professional actors and non-actors. They usually used the Point of View shot to present the Socially-conscious and humanistic. It also has the element of melodramatic and also motivated to rebuilt national reputation. Neorealism was also known as a cinema of poverty and pessimism. It has been declined started from the 1950s, because of the changing of times, everything was changing for the better. It is revolutionary and happened between the time of non-revolutionary and prosperity and affluence.
The story is set in the post-World War II Val Melaina neighbourhood of Room. Antonio Ricci receives the job of posting advertising bills. In the first day of his work, when he was posting the poster on the wall, there has a young man that snatches his bicycle. Antonio chased the thief, however, he misses the thief and failed to get back his bicycle. Antonio finds out some ways to find his bicycle back, but it failed again. After that, he encounters the thief and wanted to searches the thief's apartment. At the result, Antonio doesn't have witnesses and he failed for it. He and his child, Bruno leave in despair. After that, Antonio sees an unattended bicycle near a doorway. He decided to steal it, and he has been caught. The bicycle's owner notice s Bruno and forgive Antonio.
In this film, the audience can notice that the stage, the scene is shot on the location. The environment of the place like the house was a bit different from other houses, it due to the building is still developing. The actor in this film is only one of the professional actor and others were the social actor. The main character in this film is the social actor, who were the people that don't have a lot of the experience on performance or acting. However, he can perform his character very well because they usually have the same kind of experience that familiar in the film. It totally applied Contemporary Social Realism in the film. Neorealism is showing the feeling of sadness, despair in this film. The main character Antonio Ricci as the desperate role in this film. He lost his bicycle when he was working, but the result is he failed to get his bicycle back. On the ways that he finds his bicycle, he started to change his mindset and want to steal others bicycle, however, he has been caught by lots of people. Antonio Ricci is feeling very unfair and also despair when his bicycle stolen by others, there don't have lots of people to help him. This is how the director applied Contemporary Social Realism in the film. It actually will always happen in our daily life.
In conclusion, people can learn something through by Neorealism film like Contemporary Social Realism. We can notice that this concept also appears in our daily life. However, this film movement was declined in the early 1950s,
The story is set in the post-World War II Val Melaina neighbourhood of Room. Antonio Ricci receives the job of posting advertising bills. In the first day of his work, when he was posting the poster on the wall, there has a young man that snatches his bicycle. Antonio chased the thief, however, he misses the thief and failed to get back his bicycle. Antonio finds out some ways to find his bicycle back, but it failed again. After that, he encounters the thief and wanted to searches the thief's apartment. At the result, Antonio doesn't have witnesses and he failed for it. He and his child, Bruno leave in despair. After that, Antonio sees an unattended bicycle near a doorway. He decided to steal it, and he has been caught. The bicycle's owner notice s Bruno and forgive Antonio.
In this film, the audience can notice that the stage, the scene is shot on the location. The environment of the place like the house was a bit different from other houses, it due to the building is still developing. The actor in this film is only one of the professional actor and others were the social actor. The main character in this film is the social actor, who were the people that don't have a lot of the experience on performance or acting. However, he can perform his character very well because they usually have the same kind of experience that familiar in the film. It totally applied Contemporary Social Realism in the film. Neorealism is showing the feeling of sadness, despair in this film. The main character Antonio Ricci as the desperate role in this film. He lost his bicycle when he was working, but the result is he failed to get his bicycle back. On the ways that he finds his bicycle, he started to change his mindset and want to steal others bicycle, however, he has been caught by lots of people. Antonio Ricci is feeling very unfair and also despair when his bicycle stolen by others, there don't have lots of people to help him. This is how the director applied Contemporary Social Realism in the film. It actually will always happen in our daily life.
In conclusion, people can learn something through by Neorealism film like Contemporary Social Realism. We can notice that this concept also appears in our daily life. However, this film movement was declined in the early 1950s,
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