In this essay I will analyse all the characteristics that make Bicycles Thieves a realistic film, and all the non-realistic elements that, in some ways, determine its realism as well. Initially, it is important to make a short introduction about Italian neorealism and its aspects. ... It is because all of these features that Andre' Bazin said that Bicycle Thieves is "one of the first examples of pure cinema. ... The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio Ricci: thanks to Zavattini's theory of "pedinamento" - the following of someone - the audience is conscious of what the ...

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