Italian Cinema(1940s-1960s)

Italian film has a pivotal status in the history of the cinema in the world. The most characteristic movie style is the Italian neorealism films. Its main characteristicis is shooting in live-action with a realistic actors, and use the local dialect. Their narrative feature is the loose plot, all the time regardless of the cause and effect. And they tend to have an open ending. They use the movie methods to reflect the actual life of the people and psychology.

The most characteristic movie style is the Italian neorealism films. Its main characteristicis is shooting in live-action with a realistic actors, and use the local dialect. Their narrative feature is the loose plot, all the time regardless of the cause and effect. And they tend to have an open ending. They use the movie methods to reflect the actual life of the people and psychology.

I watched the movie The Bicycle Thief. By the sad experience of Italian workers after the second world war, it reflects the social conditions in Italy at that time. It tells the story of a person losing bicycles, looking for bicycles, and finally be compelled helpless to steal cars. The film's practical technique shows in the location shooting.  For example, characters' shabby clothes, rough housing, Rome messy pedestrian streets, and people in a hurry. The movie also use direct narrative method. It adopted to the lost bike for clues, into every corner of the society. It showed the consequences of social crisis and poverty like unemployment, black market, prostitution, selfish. And through these appearance to reveal the political, economic, and other deep philosophy.

This film used a full-length shot and the camera moved with characters. For example, in the beginning of the movie is a scene that a car was coming, a group of people was getting off the bus and walking toward the stairs. This shooting method restored the real life scene at that time in Italy.