... with his son searches his stolen bicycle, extremely important for his survival) the film became a parable about the difficulties and the problems which afflicted Italy during the post-war period. In this essay I will analyse all the characteristics that make Bicycles Thieves a realistic film, and all the non-realistic elements that, in some ways, determine its realism as well. Initially, it is important ... sets. The perfect aesthetic illusion of reality." The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio Ricci: thanks to Zavattini's theory of "pedinamento" - the following of someone -...

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