The Bicycle Theif
Once his bicycle is stolen, his whole life comes crashing down.
I did not enjoy watching this movie because for one I hate sad endings and two I hate when bad people get away with things, especially towards innocent people. Anyways, this movie's main characters are Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) the man whose bicycle gets stolen, Bruno Ricci (Enzo Staiola) Antonio's son,
Maria Ricci (Lianella Carell) Antonio's wife and Vittorio Antonucci is the bicycle thief.
As the movie starts, everyone is trying to get a job. Antonio recieves a job posting flyers. This job includes a bicycle so he can go from place to place quickly. But the thing is that he doesn't have a bicycle, so his wife Maria decides to I guess sell her wedding sheets to get money for Antonio to be able to keep the job. So the first day he has the bicycle and is off to work, the bicycle is stolen. Antonio runs after the thieves but unfortunatly doesn't catch up to them. So him and his son, Bruno, are off to find the bicycle. They report to the police and they get help but no luck. Later on in the movie, Antonio sees an old man he thinks saw the bicycle thief and where he went. The old man denys it and tells Antonio to leave him alone but Antonio doesn't give up and follows him to church. During church Antonio is still trying to convince the old man but the old man runs away as he goes to get soup. Then Antonio gets really mad and goes looking for him. Poor Bruno is trying to help but he gets his father more annoyed. Then at a point Antonio slaps Bruno on his face and Bruno gets very upset. Then there was a situation where a boy was drowning and Antonio thought it was Bruno, but later found out it wasn't. He realizes how worried he was and how he could have lost Bruno for good and he feels bad for him and takes him to get pizza. After that, they go to a little town where he actually finds the bicycle theif! But sadly, he had no proof that was the bicycle theif because Vittorio had already sold the bicycle. Only he knew it was him. The whole town started to defend Vittorio and kicked Antonio out of the town and told him never to come back. The police himself said theres no luck. As Antonio leaves, he is very very upset. And his desperation of having a bicycle gets to him and he decides to go steal a bicycle himself. It happened to him so he doesn't think much. But as he stole the bicycle, he doesn't get away with it. He gets caught and is humiliated in front of everyone including Bruno. The movie ends there with no happy ending.
I rated this movie a 5 because like I said I hate movies with horrible, depressing endings. It felt like everything just kept getting worse instead of atleast one thing going right. This movie I disliked the most and my teacher knows that. But one thing I did like about this movie was that it had a good beginning, middle and end. There were really good scenes that I got into, where the actors played well.
