Vittorio De Sica

the relationships between a father and son. In this two film Vittorio De Sica and Jean-Pierre Dardenne both show a father…

“True function of cinema is not to tell fables … the cinema must tell reality as if it were a story; there must be no gap between life and what is on the screen.” – CEZARE ZAVATTINI This essay examines the life of lower-middle class in a city with the help of the movie Bicycle Thieves. Despite having been released during the middle of the 20th century, its continuing relevance in the present makes it an interesting topic of discussion. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film directed by Vittorio De…

The Bicycle Thieves is a simple, touching story directed by Vittorio de Sica. The 1948 film is a classic in the anti-fascist neorealism movement. Antonio finally has a job opportunity, but he must provide his own transportation. His bicycle is stolen and in a moment of desperation he attempts a lone bicycle outside the town square. The non-professional actors of Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola give an excellent performance as a father and son in postwar Italy. Their relationship provides a…

portraying the struggle of normal people who lived day to day under extreme difficulties, filmmakers emphasized the main principles of neorealism. They wanted to teach people, to open their eyes to the real things and serious problems, to show that there is something more than importance of materialism; ultimately, there must be a hope and faith in a good future. And the key to this future lies in the hands of every Italian man, regardless of his or her position in society; furthermore, the…

The Motorcycle Diaries is a film set in 1952 which followed 23 year-old Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (also called Fuser) who was on break before returning to his last semester of medical school and his friend Alberto Granado (nicknamed Mial) who was a 29 year-old biochemist. This film was based on the diaries of Guevara and provides an account of an 8,000 km motorcycle journey to see as much of the continent of South America in the few months before returning to complete college. The trip would…

Neorealism is a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life. De Sica's finest achievement is bringing the previously ignored working classes to the screen. His primary aim in the Bicycle Thieves was to use the camera to show how people lived. The non-professional actors give fine performances and lend the film a documentary-like air, even though the narrative itself is fictional. A crowd forms in front of a government employment…

Here, they decide on the details of their final attempt at robbery, and engage in a sequence almost identical to the end of De Sica’s film. However, Zahed and Gol-Ghotai’s narrative takes a different turn than that of De Sica’s Bruno and Antonio. Zahed acts as the active thief (Antonio) and Gol-Ghotai as his accomplice (Bruno). Aided by Gol-Ghotai’s screaming “thief!”, Zahed is quickly swarmed and apprehended for this theft. Unlike in Bicycle Thieves, however, Zahed is not liberated out of pity…

The Motorcycle Diaries is a movie based on the actual diary entries of Ernesto Guevara, an Argentinian medical student, who with his older friend, Alberto Granado, a biochemist, go on an adventure, across Latin America, in hopes of seeking fun, but also to accomplish their goal of helping out in a leper colony. The movie begins with Ernesto Guevara being restless and in dire need of a break from medical school. His friend, Alberto Grenada, is also in the same position as Ernesto, but is anxious…

Business communication ASSIGNMENT 1 PARAPHRASE-REFERENCE Kaushik Kalal Student no- 300984320 Teacher-Marzena “Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America” by Hayley Peterson Original Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, opened in 1975 to great fanfare as the premier shopping destination for the surrounding community. But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several department stores abandoned their leases, and the mall began to fail. It lost its last…

segregation, De Jure and De Facto segregation. De Jure segregation was segregation that is forced by law and can be easily fixed, De Facto segregation was segregation enforced by the public and society, not necessarily by law. Since De Jure segregation is a law, it is required and hard to get around for example, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the Jim Crow Laws. De Facto segregation makes the struggle for racial equality extremely hard because it will require changing people’s beliefs and views and…