Bicycle Thieves Review

Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica,Post-war and post-fascist, this minimalistic story arguably presents some of the best interpretations of humanistic values in both classic and modern cinema. A poor man relies on his bicycle to do his job, but it is stolen, leading to much frustration and anger. Being a foreign film it is, the simplistic story rather interested me. Back then the concept that people were forced to do jobs that were not part of the wealthy side, and also the primary issue the people had a really hard time finding jobs in general. This movie expresses the powerful concept of a character who has to go through these daily struggles to provide money. On another note, I found the film rather dragging and the scenes seemed most of the time average.For the most part, our lead character is pretty unlikable and doesn’t do enough to make himself appealing anyway. The acting is fine, the film looks fine, and the directing is fine, but in the perspective of the film. It did not seem good enough for me. I found too many things in the film to just be average. At the time this movie seems very intrinsic and interesting but ,the style did not fit my interests.