Open City

Rosellini’s Portrayal of Marina as Everywoman, Ingrid As A Wicked Temptress, In Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini’s neorealist film, Rome Open City, is reflective of the turbulent climate in Italy during Nazi and Fascist occupation in World War II. His use of costuming, body language, and mirror shots give rise to a tongue-in-cheek reflection at all the difficult moral and economic sacrifices people had to make during the war. Rossellini not only makes Marina and Ingrid, but also his audience, look in the mirror and decide if their sacrifices have been worth it and if they can accept what they 've done and live with the person they see in their reflection, using Ingrid’s depravity as a foil to Marina’s internal suffering. When the audience…

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female characters. Each of the women starring in the film, Guilia, Anna, Clerci and Clerci’s mother were raped or put in a forceful and compromising sexual situation. Guilia, played by actress Stefania Sandrelli, was naïve and feminine. She was good for “...bed and kitchen,” (The Conformist). She was sexually free, but it was implied that her open sexual attitude was attributed to being raped as a child, which later affected her sexual encounters with her husband, Marcello. En route to their…

For a postwar Italian society, reconciliation with their wartime atrocities required the reconstruction of collective memory. Popular media, such as films and songs, were essential in accomplishing this seemingly gargantuan task. At the heart of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City, for example, is the active reconstruction of memory. As a work of fiction, Rome Open City honors the resistance against the Nazi occupation of Rome. Yet, as a work which provides insight into the emotional landscape…

As seen throughout Julius’ interactions in Open City, Julius has a difficult time identifying his place in the world. He consistently reflects upon humans at a distance: “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.” (Cole 192). This particular quote depicts Julius’ ability to distance himself and reflect upon humans in general, while also shedding light on his own…

Rome, Open City is a film directed by Roberto Rossellini about the plight of the citizens of Rome during Nazi occupation in 1944. The film starts with a leader of an underground Italian communist leader, Giorgio Manfredi (Marcelo Pagliero), escaping from the Nazi Gestapo atop of the rooftops of Rome. After escaping, Giorgio Manfredi meets a woman named Pina (Anna Magnani) who is the fiancé of another communist party member. Through Pina and her son, Giorgio Manfredi gets in contact with Don…

In Rome Open City, the director, Rossellini, depicts his characters in certain ways that correspond with Wilheim Reich’s three layers of the personality. Rosellini depicts Marina, Pina, and Captain Bergmann in way that each character closely aligns with a different layer of personality. In the scene in Marina’s living room where Giorgio and Francesco are spending the night, Rosellini enhances Marina’s surface layer personality to make her seem polite and cordial. She puts on music and dances…

Open City by Teju Cole is undoubtedly a narrative without a concise plot for the reader to distinguish a climax or resolution. Instead, the protagonist narrates his observations as he roams New York City and at one point Brussels and colorfully references an inconceivable number of literary, musical and artistic works. This style allows Teju Cole the flexibility to probe a broad array of subjects such as slavery, death, denial of the wrong one does, racism, genocide and the post 9/11…

The films Open City and Winter Light display the intricacies of loyalty within personal and group relationships, both human and non-human. Open City tends to view loyalty as an honorable trait, while Winter Light takes a bleaker view, questioning loyalty’s very ability to exist. Not surprisingly, both films represent the prevailing attitudes of the times in which they were created. Open City, released in 1945, offers a view of Rome while it is being occupied by Germany at the end of World War…

The ‘realness’ will be evaluated through examining the way the city and characters were depicted as well as analyzing the cinematic techniques employed in each film. One of the most influential films of Italian history is the 1954 neorealist movie Rome Open City by Roberto Rossellini. He is one of the extraordinary directors and screenwriters of the late 20th century that incarnated the spirit of Italian liberation. The adventure and the struggle for freedom is powerfully conveyed through the…