Films of Italian Neorealism are mostly shot
on-location rather than studio sets.
It uses the actual location and it is
usually shot at the exterior which often displayed the post-war ruins.
For
example we can see that in Bicycle
Thieves (Vittoria De Sica, 1948), the setting used was shot only on
location and no scene is shot in the studio. The setting in the movie is in
Italy which is in the Post World War 2 and the whole movie was shot entirely on
the real street and houses but not in a studio set. They choose to shot on the
actual location to show the audience that how the place looks like in the post
war period and it looks real to the audience.
As for the setting in this film
in term of mise-en-scene, it shows a city in ruin with people in ripped and dirty
clothes. This reinforces the poverty situation that people in Italy is facing
at that time in the post war period.
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