The difference between an east-flowing river and a bicycle thief.

According to the relevant public information and materials on the Internet, A River Flows East follows and develops the aesthetic tradition of China's film "Shadow Play", and The Bicycle Stealer becomes the pioneer of the documentary aesthetics genre. Because of this, if we compare the realistic film schools in China with the Italian neo-realistic film movement in the 1940s through the method of "parallel research", we can not only deepen our understanding of these two important schools in the world film history, but also strengthen our understanding of the film history in China and Europe.