S4E28: Bicycle Thieves

I am reminded of this line from Synecdoche, New York: “There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They’re all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.”

Uhhh, did anyone else catch November's "Why didn't I think of that" line when they joke about Bruno just saying no to the pedophile? An I overthinking this?

Can't believe I'm about to go all "as a black person" but I just don't think this movie deserved a 2 for omission on cultural insensitivity, especially since you gave it a 1 for misogyny (where I think Nova had a point)

I need kjb bad lieutenant 2 in the new year

thank y'all so much for exposing me to a bunch of movies i would have never seen without this podcast. Sexy Beast and Topkapi were absolute bangers. now, i am _pleading_ with y'all, before Heist Season ends, please do David Mamet's 2001 _Heist_ with Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito and a bunch of other guys you love to see, walking through a bizarrely intricate plot and spouting the most head-scratching unnatural and yet utterly ingenious dialogue at each other. it's so good. you have to see it. Tim Rogers loves it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cliSJ5splwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaJlaK_dg_E&list=PLLBxmuPY0SHlo7fDl2DLOWRVG91IzBuj1&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cvJie4yFc

I remember going to a restaurant called Mama Roma and when my mum asked why there was only pasta and no pizza on the menu the waiter looked like she had shot him and said "we are Mama Roma, not Mama Napoli!" Unfortunately for these, as we later learned, very recent immigrants, Australians don't understand that Italy is made up of about 20 distinct provinces and will see the Italian flag and order pizza; so they eventually gave up and started serving pizza. EDIT: Watching this movie 12 times in a row (or on 12 simultaneous monitors) is the moral equivalent of watching Rambo 4 once.

wow, a 77-year-old movie on the pod

As someone who lives in a city with a lot of bicycle theft (copenhagen) this is exactly how the police treat it.

This was a fun coincidence for me that they're doing Bicycle Thieves this week. I've been going through the back logs of The Worst of All Possible Worlds and I just listened to their episode on the same movie a couple of days ago.

the comment abt noone helping chase the thief brings to mind many (4) times when I have been performing in a club, have seen a man hit a woman and the crowd just be like "give em some space, not our problem!". Always love bounding off stage to engage a valid target, but dislike what it says abt my conspecifics.

You guys should watch Aimless Bullet (Obaltan) (1961), a South Korean movie that’s very much in dialogue with this one and also features a heist and it is also very good

The poster in Shawshank was a film reference and I'm 20 years late finding this out.

Can't wait for the just announced J. J Abrams remake of this film. J.J. insisted that it be set in 1980's suburban Indiana. Bruno is supposed to make friends with some girl who has telekinetic powers, and they're going to fight a Cenobite from an evil alternate dimension. Abrams was quoted as saying, "You know, fidelity to the source material. That's the most important thing about all of this."

Poverty echoing through history. This Italy is why Australia has such good coffee.

"If I can't fuck around onstage, I don't want to be part of your revolution" - Emma Goldman.

I had a violent home invasion and my roommate subdued the man. The cops were just about as effective with that as the ones here. Which is *WILD* that they believed the home invader (man) who said he thought he was in his house over the two women who had never seen him before. I didn't want for him to go to jail as much as to have a victims impact statement to the judge and compensation from the victims of violent crimes fund. That was the point I really lost any faith I had in law enforcement.

A fantastic film, glad you guys reviewed it! I was wondering something: you point out all these institutions and societies (society) fail Antonio, except for the communists who might offer a solution (in the future, perhaps). Except of course IRL communism failed to.

Can't get a tourist visa to visit America because of the damned post inspectors.

If you want magical neorealism you should do uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives

this is one i am going to have to watch later

I listened intently through the post-film "what did we learn" and SCUM segments expecting to hear November say "listen to Blood Work", but Chekov's gun never fired

We have a science based system, it stands for Socialism, Communist sensitivity, Under dog sympathy, Marxist intent.

The sequel is TheGodfather movies

Wrt the rich guy calling himself a poor soul, there's a Christian reading of this, which is that he is spiritually poor, with all his money and status he doesn't do a single thing to actually help people, he's not a good christian, he's just not realizing why he's spiritually a broke bitch. Eye of a needle and all that.

ThankYouDevon.wav

So this means no Inception episode in Heist season? Possibly the most smarmy Heist movie I've ever seen 😅

I appreciate that y'all couldn't even gin up a fake "we didn't like this movie" bit cause it's just that good lol