No, not the movie, even though I have to admit it is a really good movie. Incredibly depressing, but a really good social commentary on the living/working conditions of post-war Italy.
I saw the saddest thing I have seen in a long time a few days ago. I was walking home from the weekly street market and it was pouring rain and I was about to turn onto my street and I hear some old man yelling "Ladro, Ladro" and then I see this guy riding by on a bike with an umbrella in hand. This old man really was an old man, I'm guestimating he was 85, but not a young 85. Well he tried to run after the thief, made it about 5 feet and tripped, fortunately there was a lady nearby that stopped him from falling. Well i guess this old man had stopped by a Tabbachi, which is an integral part of Italian society I have noticed, and since he was only going to be in there for about a minute he didn't bother locking it up, because it was raining and he would have gotten all wet trying to lock it up. So he was literally in the tabbachi for about a minute, I know because I saw him when he went in. Well I guess as soon as he went in someone came and took his bike AND umbrella.
It's one thing to steal, but then to steal from an old man...that's so cruel, they took not only his bike, but his umbrella too, which really sucked because it was raining.
I don't know why it affected me so much, but it did, it just made me really, really sad.
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