... Ricci's house); characters talk with the typical roman dialect and themes debated are ideals of equality and social justice. Furthermore there is not a narrator who influences the point of view of the audience: through a very simple synopsis, spectators discover the straight revelation of the real, without any filters. It is because all of these features that Andre' Bazin said that Bicycle Thieves is "one of the first examples of pure cinema. No more actors ... , no more story, no more sets. The perfect aesthetic illusion of reality." The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio ...

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