The Bicycle Thief is every man's search for dignity - is as though the sould of a man had been filmed the bicycle thief is about a man a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job he is desperate, pawns everything to regain his machine, goes to work, his back is turned and then goes on a search through Rome to find it is, or poor people, or rags It is because these actual details are organized by a human view of life. The film in unafraid to examine openly, straight forwardly, the terrible distorted, destructive world which Man has made for himself. It has a point of view It is genuinely angry, in fact, ferocious. And this anger is not cloaked *angled), got at by indirection and ladies' magazine plot masquerades, but is expressed by means of a head-on collision with the facts of life as they exist.