I was jolted when Pina was shot dead by the Germans--especially in a 1940s movie! I know this is neorealism and was supposed to be realistic but that really hit hard! Was I the only one that didn't see it coming and was shocked by it?
shareI felt all of them were in so much danger that any of them could have been killed at any time! The genius of the writing was that no-one's destiny was predictable.
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Yeah! and as the OP said, is Neorealism, realistic and you don´t expect to happend, audience always expect a Hollywood movie kind of resolution, but of course, that doesn´t happen...
Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.
The scene in question certainly set the tone of the film and showed the callousness of the Nazis.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
Yes, it showed the callousness of the Nazis, and went way beyond that. There was absolutely no reason to kill her. The scene made it quite clear that nobody was safe, there were no rules, and nothing could be relied upon. I was shocked, too, and chilled to the bone.
shareAfter all the filmed history of Nazi cruelty and the depiction of that on dramatic film ... can one really be shocked at that anymore? Unless of course one hasn't seen a lot of these types of imagery from the time. So no, I pretty much expected it.
shareI was not surprised by the killing. I suspected they would shoot her as soon as she started running. That's what Nazi's do-- they murder without cause.
shareI was shocked when Pina murdered her unborn child. Yes. She did it. Chasing a Nazi vehicle? WTF did she think she was going to do except get her and little fetus baby killed?
shareYou know , the scene of the killing of Pina was inspired by a real fact and a real woman. If you ever happen to drive down viale Giulio Cesare in Rome on one corner you will see a marble plate close to the spot where a humble woman - Teresa Gullace - was shot dead by a nazi: her husband had been put under arrest during a military search, a couple of days later she and other women went to ask for their men to be released, when she saw her husband at a window she tried to get closer to talk to him and maybe hand him something like food or anything, she didn't really care when a nazi came screaming at her to stop her and she was killed by just one shot.
sharePart of what makes it so shocking is that just before we have witnessed the priest in a semi-comic scene with the paralysed man. Momentarily the weight of the situation was lifted and then thrown again, hard.
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