Bicycle Thieves

For me, there are some films that are so emotional and fraught that I have a difficult time watching them. Some examples from my life are A River Runs Through It, Kurosawa’s Ikiru, which I’m going to do a pod on in the future, Scorsese’s Raging Bull, and one of the greatest examples of Italian Neo-realism, Bicycle Thieves. Until reviewing Thieves for the pod, I hadn’t been able to watch it for two decades. It certainly affected me as a young man, when I first saw it, but viewings after that were as a husband and father. The knowledge of and responsibilities of those roles made Thieves almost unendurable. It’s that indelible.

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