Lost in Criterion

Spine 374: Bicycle Thieves

Lost in Criterion · Nov 2, 2019 · 1h 15m

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This week we watch one of the classics of world cinema, a tale of desperation in destitution, and continue our streak of not needing to leave the text very much at all in order to show the Marxist reading of a movie. Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves tells the story of a man who just wants to make an honest living in a society that is either indifferent or actively working against him.

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