Film · Italy · 1948
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Bicycle Thieves
76Worth an evening.
He loses the bike the job needs, then his son watches him try to steal one.
The review
No glamour, which is the compliment. A man in Rome gets a job that requires a bicycle. The bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the city looking for it. I've had weeks where one missing tool sat between a paycheck and nothing, and I didn't have my kid there for all of it.
He's humiliated. He tries to steal one himself and is caught in front of the boy. A child can watch it with a parent. It'll hurt in the right place. I wouldn't soothe that on the way to bed. The job was real, the theft was his, and the boy was there.
Journal
Keep Bicycle Thieves in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 76
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 76. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.
The eight
- 10Industry
The new job exists only if the bicycle does, and the theft ends the work.
- 10Household
A father and his son search the city, and the boy sees every failure.
- 5Piety
Need pushes him to steal, and his son is there when he is caught.
- 7Courage
He walks the city humiliated, and the harder risk is his son's eyes.
- 7Republic
He owes the city not to steal, and the law catches him in the act.
- 8Temperance
There is no glamour, and he is caught stealing in front of his own boy.
- 9Truth
Honest work needed the bike; the boy sees the theft that breaks that.
- 5Stewardship
The bicycle is still gone, and a son is left who watched his father.
Where to watch
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