Italian Neorealism Film Analysis

Italian Neorealism film captures the hardships of daily life in Italy after World War II, the fall of the Mussolini’s Fascist regime 1943 with the difficult economic and moral conditions of World War II Italy. Italian Neorealism film is being known a documentary visual style-grainy photography (Cardullo B ,1991) based both category film use of actual locations, reveals the real situation of the reality and avoidance of unnatural lighting. Those elements made this category films extremely alike, but not the same. Though the film Paisà (Paisan) (1946), Laidri di biciclettle (The Bicycle Thief) (1948), Germainia anno zero (Germany, Year Zero) (1948), Umberto D. (1952), this research paper will mainly focus on the differences between Italian Neorealism

Instead of using the professional actor, Italian Neorealism films use ordinary people as an actor due to the shortage of materials and lack of funds after the World War II. Unlike documentary films, using real life person so as to record the authentic events. To ensure that the entire documentary is minimum interruption. On the other hand, Italian Neorealism films had no other options to decrease the production budget thus Italian Neorealism films have to use nonprofessional actors. The divergence of those category films is basic on facticity and economic considerations. Despite that Italian Neorealism films using nonprofessional actors, it does not necessarily mean poor acting is appearing in the films. Due to the fact that most of the non-professional actors are not acting other person’s life and quite the opposite, those nonprofessional actors are just acting themselves, owing that most of the Italian Neorealism films are filming normal Italia arduous life after the World War II. Take Germainia anno zero for example, even though the character Edmund have never had any acting training, he acts just perfect fine and showing the dim future he is facing. For the reason that he is just acting himself, he does not need special acting skill to show his daily life. In addition, Edmund performance is even more realistic than actors. There is no doubt that he is just being himself in the film. In addition, Italian Neorealism films become a great example for all those low budget films in the meantime. Films producer no longer have to hire professional actors. In brief, at the time of materials and manpower shortage Italian Neorealism film use nonprofessional actors to saving budget, still Italian Neorealism films actor have great performs resulted from those actors are just acting themselves and reappear the real situation in their normal daily