Bicycle Thieves: Being Poor and its Aesthetic

There is no doubt that Vittorio De Sica definitely captured a pretty realistic version of society during this time period. Once again, I was emotionally captured by the film and its message. In fact, I felt attached to it, and the interactions between the father and the kid made me tear up almost every time. 

In these scenes, especially the last scene where they both leave crying, I felt as if it was my father and I, not because we faced that exact experience, but because I remember poverty and how devastating it is, how scary it is because you don't know about the next day. It was also very truthful in the way that De Sica makes one feel. He doesn't give us a happy ending; Instead, he gives us the most realistic one, and it resonated with me because some days, I would hope for the best, but I always got the most realistic outcome, nothing changed, and my father was still looking for a job and I was still sad. 

Vittorio De Sica manages to show this wonderfully, and his use of music is a main example of that. In a way, when the music finally comes in, you feel as if something grand and helpful if going to happen, but no, the opposite happens, and it is this attention to detail, which shapes a lot of the parts of Italian Neorealism.