Characteristics - Possesses Melodramatic Aspects

The melodramatic effect is to show how expressive and add a full on dramatic effect to the film. It is to give an impact to the scene to show its severity. This technique is highly used in Italian Neorealism movements films as it enables the director to show how expressive the actor are, as they can truly portray the feelings of a post war survivor which the upper class professional actors could not.

In the scene where Antonio sees his bicycle lost in the sea of people, not being able to do anything about it, the camera shows his facial expression by having a close up on his face. It can be seen how sad and loss of hope he is in that scene

Antonio looking lost of hope