the bicycle theif steal italian italy depression
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.
He lost his life when they stole his bike!
Antonio (Played by Lamberto Maggiorani) is a poor man who is overjoyed when he is at last offered a job, delivering and putting up movie posters. But he needs a bicycle, and is required to supply his own, so when he tells his wife Maria (Played by Lianella Carelli) she pawns the family's entire collection of bed linen to get the bicycle he had already pawned. On his first day at work, the unlocked bike is stolen (now isn’t that a good enough reason to put a chain around your bike) and Antonio drops the glue and brush to go on a desperate chaise through the streets after the thief and is then miss leaded by a man and goes after the wrong person on a bike. Then he goes home and tells his wife and goes on a manhunt for the person who has his bike. He looks through the streets of Rome with his little boy Bruno (Played by Enzo Staiola) to get his bike back, demanding, accusing, and uncovering scenes of poverty similar to theirs wherever they go this is due for the end of the depression. They create pandemonium in classic crowd moments: in the streets, in a market, in a church and many more places. Faces always gather eagerly around the pair, all commenting, complaining and generally magnifying the father and son's distress and embarrassment. This is a story that magnificently withholds the comic or dramatic palliatives. The son is the one who had be a witness of the father's humiliation, his failure as a provider. The scenes at the beginning of the film, when Antonio casually leaves his bicycle unlocked and it remains for the moment miraculously un-stolen, have to be watched through your fingers because you don’t know if they would steal his bike then and the movie starts from there or further in the film. Antonio seems unable or unwilling to embrace the obvious redemptive moral - that his son is the important possession, not the wretched bicycle, perhaps because it is too obvious, or because this moral is a luxury that only well-off people can afford. The father is obsessed with finding a stolen needle in the urban haystack, obsessed with getting his job back. Again and again, he ignores his little boy while scanning the horizon for his bicycle. At one part, he hears an uproar from the riverbank about a "drowning boy". With a guilty start, he looks around. Are the people meaning Bruno is drowning? No: there he is, safe and sound waiting were his father left him. But the lesson is not yet learned. He doesn't even hold Bruno's hand! And, in a later scene, we see the poor boy almost run over by a car because his father isn't looking out for him as they cross the street. Bruno's simple physical survival is the movie's secret miracle, and he is finally to be his father's savior, but in such a way as to turn into Antonio's humiliation complete, when he saves him from being arrested for stealing a bicycle witch is probably where the film gets its name because first it was called Bicycle Thieves and was later changed to “The Bicycle Thief” because of the surprising twist at the end. This is poverty's authentic sting: dull and horrible loss of dignity. The Bicycle Thief is a brilliant, tactlessly real work of art but it’s not really the type of movie I would enjoy watching a lot just because it doesn’t have a happy ending but overall I this film deserves at least a 8 out of 10 in my perspective.
They steal a bike from a guy and then he tries to steal one
The Bicycle Thief is an alright of a movie. It was boring throughout the entire movie. But I say that it was alright because of the little kid that played as the role of the son of the main actor. I really liked how he played the role or how the role made him act. The movie was about a man who has a wife and a little boy. He doesn’t have a job. When he finds a job, they tell him that he has to have a bicycle. He tells the person that gave him a job that his bicycle is ruined and that he could walk until he got a bike. They tell him that he has to have a bicycle or he can’t have the job. He tells him that he would get a bike. So he goes to the store and buys a bike. He takes the bike home and his son is all excited. He cleans the bike very good and that same day the dad goes to leave him at school riding the bike. The guy goes to work and his job is putting up posters. He carries around a ladder so he could reach higher places. He stops to put a poster up and he is on the ladder. A guy comes and steals his bike and the he is yelling to let people know that the guy was a robber. He doesn’t catch up with the thief so the thief gets away with the bike. He goes to a friend and asks for help. His friend helps him look for it. The whole next day they go to different stores looking for the bike in pieces because they thought that the guy would have taken it apart by now. That whole day, they didn’t find it. So the next day he and his son go looking for the bike. They found a guy that looked like the thief. They run after him but he gets away. They go to the person that the thief was talking to. The guy goes to a church and they followed him there. They ask him questions and at the end they get the answer to where the guy lives. They told him that he would take them there but the guy gets away. The dad tells his son to wait for him by the lake. The dad goes to look for the guy and he hears people screaming saying that a boy was drowning. He runs to see who it was and while he was running, he was yelling his son’s name. But it wasn’t his son, it was someone else. He sees his son take off his jacket, put it on his arm and sit on a stair. I really like that part because the looks very innocent and it looks nice when a little kid knows how to act. They don’t find either of the guys and the dad is getting very frustrated. He tells his son to go home and the dad steals a bike but he gets caught. The son didn’t catch the bus to go home and he sees his dad get caught. He starts crying and they let him go because of his son. The little kid acted very well in this movie.
A film about a mans struggle to keep his job.
The Bicycle Thief is an Italian movie about a man who can’t find a job at first but when he finally does get a decent job, everything goes wrong and this movie shows his struggles to try to have his job back to make his situation better for his family and also himself. It was an alright movie but it wasn’t a great one either. The whole plot of the story was a good and also the actors did a really good job, but the ending also made me get a little mad. I don’t regret watching this movie but I don’t think I would want to see it again.
The movie starts out with the main character, whose name is Antonio Ricci who has been looking for a job for a very long time finally gets an opening somewhere but the only problem was that he didn’t have a bicycle and that job required a bicycle. Although he knew he didn’t have a bicycle available at the time he still said that he would do the job. When he goes to his home with his wife Maria and his son he tells his wife about the job and she goes to pawn her wedding sheets to get the amount of money Antonio would need to buy a bicycle. Now that everything was starting to look very well he goes to his new job which required him to stick posters on walls on the street. He also went to drop off his son at school and told him to wait for him after he got out of school. On his very first day while he was putting a poster up a young man passes by and takes his bicycle the guy was going so fast that Antonio wasn’t able to catch up and get it back. He ran and ran but the guy was out of sight after a while of running. Antonio searched everywhere he thought he can find the guy but he had no luck at all, and while he was distracted with that he had forgotten that his son had been waiting for him after school so he picked him up late.
It goes on with him and his son searching and searching everywhere but there was no luck. The strong part about this movie is that at the end in desperation Antonio tries to steal someone else’s bicycle and also in front of his son, that scene shows how much he really needed that job because not having it anymore would disappoint his family because they really need that extra money. I didn’t like the ending because I’m not a fan of unhappy endings like when I saw this movie at first I compared it to The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith but I enjoyed The Pursuit of Happiness because it had a good ending after all the trouble that the main character went through throughout the film. But I also admit it wasn’t that bad I just didn’t like the ending it was very depressing to me.
A man gets a job that requires a bicycle. He buys a new bicycle, only to get it stolen from him while on the job. He tried everything to look for the person who stole his bike because he needed a job badly.
Bicycle Thief. The title of this movie explains it all. It’s about thieves that stole a bicycle, and than a turn around in roles. I mean that’s basically what the movie is about. Nothing special, just about a man trying to get a job for his family, so that they can eat and have shelter, and than loses his bicycle on the job. I mean, this movie was not very entertaining. There were very few bright spots in this movie, and the storyline wasn’t that great either. I basically didn’t understand this movie till about 15 minutes into it. It just starts off with people looking for jobs. I didn’t like it at all, and it was a very boring movie to me. Not only is it a bad movie, it is also misleading, which really makes it worse in my perspective. It leads you into believing that he had found the real bicycle thief, and than discovers he was wrong, and he made a complete fool of himself. The way they act out this movie is like they want you to feel depressed for them in the movie, but really it fails at that. These types of movies make up one of the reasons why I am not fond or interested in the genre of drama. I think that there is too many moments of sadness. And at the end, the man himself became a bicycle thief out of depression. This movie was just terrible, and I hated how they made you think that he was going to find his bicycle, than figuring out that he was not the person he was looking for. And also, the ending was so bad that I left you thinking like as if there were no hope for his family, which is too sad to watch. I wanted to see a better ending so at least I would have more understanding of this movie. This is why this genre is a fail for me Also, another thing I really hated were pointless characters and stories in the scenes in the movie. Like when he was trying to find the old man that had information about the man who stole his bicycle. At the end of the scene he just escapes and is never to be seen again, which in my point of view is such a pointless thing to add to a movie. Also, whenever there was a child drowning in the river, it was really pointless because I thought it had something to do with his own son, but there was nothing at all to do with him, and also, there’s nothing that the kid drowning added to the story or plot of the film. I think the director was just trying to fill in the time for the movie, using pointless people and scenes to make the movie longer. I would not guarantee this movie to anybody, unless I really wanted to bore them to death. This movie to me was an epic fail.
