Oh, Darn!

We watched Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears & the Bicycle Thief last night.

The Moscow one is a great film that 2 1/2 hours long, but it's a really great story and Jeanne explained to me different things about Russia at those times and why it was important in the film.

The Bicycle Thief is an awesome one, too. I saw that one in film class a few years ago and it still makes me laugh. It's like post-war Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. If you can't find humor in a film that a guy in post-war, poverty-stricken Italy where a lot of people are unemployed and this guy gets a job that requires a bike. I guess for transportation, even though there are street cars and he puts up posters. One day while putting up a poster a kid runs up and grabs his bike. Hence, the Bicycle Thief.

So he spends the rest of the movie looking for it with his son and friends and just everything wrong happens to him; it's just snowballing. Then at the end he decides to steal a bike and gets caught and chastised for it and then walks off with his son all sad.

I don't know, but I think it's very funny. I've experience many things like that, including our move to Los Angeles.