Bicycle Thieves

"I was learning Italian & my professor hailed it as a great example of post-war Italian film. In hindsight the fact it was black & white and non-English probably worked against me, along with the fact it's fucking depressing. It's become a joke now but any time I recommend a non-top 40 movie I get sh"

"Basically he said the film was undercover capitalist propaganda because it depicted working class people as thieves and weaklings. Claimed it was designed to make regular people distrust one another, to resign themselves to the fact that it's pointless to fight, the best you can do is get a shitty j"