230 Italian 11/1
Ladri di Bicciclette:
- deals with unemployment in Rome/Italy
- actore are all real people
- pegno (like a pawn shop)
- his bike isnt really broken, it is at the pawn shop
- this is not a happy film, no happy ending
- poverty is shown throughout (especially in the Church)
- they got to a restaurant napoleatano
- the child is more mature than his dad, it his an interesting relationship
- Rita Hayword, an American actress on all of the posters that he was putting up,
shows the presence of America
- They talk about going to the movies in the truck too
- Movies were important
Novecento:
- a film that showcases two different levels of society
- miracolo boom
- funds for Europe given by America at the end of WWII, Marshall Plan
- America symbolizes the end of fascism to Italians
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Election 1946
Different D.C, parties: PCI, PSI
Tasso sconto low rates in the Italian bank
When you have a lot of unemployment then you have basso costo del lavoro
Difference in North and South economically. There was an enormous boom from
1958 1962 but only in the North because they were an industrial area
Italian factory workers are paid less than other factory workers and therefore
Italian products cost less.
Eletrodomestici = appliances, Italy became very good at producing these because
of the boom they needed to build a lot more to create a modern society
Funds for the South, these should have worked to build streets, dams, aquaducts,
etc. but in reality 1/3 was wasted on politics, etc.
First Italy produces appliances and exports them and then they become the
consumer
Children from the South would come and work in the North