Bicycle Thief

[joanna bujes]

At 07:23 PM 07/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

I'd go along with that. Surely, given the issues the film raises, a "happy" 
ending would not have worked. Have you ever seen the movie "Jeux Interdits" 
(Forbidden Games)? That has a similar ending and, I think it works in the 
same way.

Joanna