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The films are about misery without surrendering to misery. An example about neo-realism must include Vittorio DeSica's brilliant film "The Bicycle Thieves." It is considered to most representative embodiments of the neo-realist theory. The film is about degradation and perversion...
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The film is about degradation and perversion. It deals with a mysterious man who steals the protagonist's bicycle and with the protagonist himself, who eventually becomes a bicycle thief out of necessity. Through use of the opening shots, DeSica begins his development of the kind of social environment that turns men into bicycle thieves...
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