The Bike Thief

  • Drama
11/2/2020
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To the Rider his moped is everything. As a pizza delivery driver it is his livelihood. As a breadline straddling, immigrant father it is his family’s anchor. It takes his wife to work. It gets his daughter to school. So when one night the moped is stolen, his world collapses. He has to get back his bike – or replace it – in whatever way possible, before his next shifts starts. If he fails, he won’t just lose his job, he will lose it all. He tries to ask the few familiar faces for help in this unfamiliar, disorienting city. However, as he runs out of time and his options are wearing thin, his moral compass begins to crack and he grows more and more willing to forgo his conscience in order to save himself and his family.

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    The Bike Thief strives to be to the Romanian expat community in London what Ladri di Biciclette was to the post-war Roman working class, and what A Better Life was to Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, but completely misunderstands what those two films were trying to say either that, or its simply a reflection of our cynical times. Unlike De Sicas hero, The Bike Thiefs anonymous protagonist not only never really even bothers to look for his scooter, but he also successfully manages to steal its replacement in fact, he resorts to theft, something that the main characters of those two other films only consider after exhausting all other alternatives, almost immediately

    So clueless is screenwriter/director Matt Chambers, that recovering t...

    August 27, 2022

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