> A grad-school friend defended both film and poem on
> the grounds that the
> endings of both were ironic -- that the inadequacy
> of the "resolution"
> was the very 'point' of it.
>
> Anyone have comment.
I've only seen "The Bicycle Thief" once, and it's been some time, so I can't comment. But for what it's worth, here's a comic interpretation, from the viva negativa of Anthony Hecht. Is this what your friend had in mind?
<http://www.newtrix.com/poems/ah-bitch.htm>
Alec
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