Bicycle Thieves

The Bicycle Thieves, directed by De Sica, follows the story of a man on the hunt to find his stolen bicycle. After finally receiving a job, Antonio Ricci must buy back his bicycle in order to keep his job hanging up posters. While hanging up one of his posters his bicycle is stolen.
What I found most interesting in this movie is the relationship between Antonio and his son Bruno. Bruno, unlike his father has had a job for sometime, even though he is still a young child. It is obvious that Bruno looks up to his father, for the fact that Antonio is his father, but for no other reason. There are moments in the movie when Bruno is even ashamed of his father because of how desperate he becomes in the search for his bicycle.
In a movie like this, where the main character loses everything, I feel as if I should feel for him, but instead I feel like he deserves what he got. I don’t know if it was because I couldn’t relate to Antonio that I didn’t feel bad for him, or if it was just because I thought he was a self-absorbed jerk.