Realism And Artifice In Bicycles Thieves

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Realism and artifice are negotiated consistently throughout Bicycles Thieves, most generally with artifice employed to support realism or for the sake of coherence. Artifice employed to support realism is evident in the scene in which Antonio and Bruno visit the Holy women, the shot utilizes carefully composed cinematography, in this case framing and camera movement, to represent the horde of apparently working class people visiting the woman to be freed from their struggles. Artifice used for the sake of narrative coherence is evident in the use of classic Hollywood editing in the scene in which Antonio Ricci's bicycle is stolen. Though neo-realism stresses coincidence over causality, which is also evident in this scene in the fact that Ricci

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