The Bicycle Thief (1948)

We’re in our last stretch of September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re broke as fuck now. We spent way too much money in France on wine, cigarettes and food cooked in heavy cream and now we’ve come back to postwar Italy and we got to get a job. But we need a bike. When it comes to representing poverty on film Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film “THE BICYCLE THIEF” (or “BICYCLE THIEVES”) stands among the absolute best. Antonio needs his bike back from hock so he can get a gig hanging Rita Hayworth posters, but first we gotta sell the bedsheets to get the bike back. Ok we got the bike but GODDAMMIT SOME KID STOLE IT! Antonio and his son, Bruno, scour markets and churches in a race against time. Desperation and rage against a community that is truly no better off than you are. What can this man do to feed his family? How far is he willing to go with his back against the wall? Surely, he finds a way? Right? Here’s your link to this Italian classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQkDYXzsHJE

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