Articles tagged "unemployment"
Bicycle Thieves
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Italy | 1948
De Sica and company undercut this by focusing on Bruno’s perspective, which is tainted by several glances at an adjoining table, where a well-to-do family is devouring a better meal as if it means nothing to them. Antonio realizes that the bicycle doesn’t just represent a job, it’s a way of eventually making his family comfortable enough to enjoy something resembling a life of leisure—if only on special occasions. In the course of five minutes, we the audience plunge past the depths of despair into murky, green oceans of jealousy and resurface—renewed and determined to make it to find a surer footing; and there’s not a contrived beat in the scene.