El Neorrealismo de ayer y de hoy: la construcción fílmica de una realidad social

Abstract

This article aims to explain how in light of certain social, political and cultural events, realism becomes the most effective means for telling of and denouncing a reality. As the filmmakers of the Italian Neo-realism movement understood, the cinematographic camera is the ideal element to construct a film reality; a reality already built from elements belonging to another social reality, which in many cases, is the object of rejection. Neo-realism has gained force by depicting events that have been repeated in different times and places of history, without losing sight of the aesthetic component that has merited ranking many of these films as authentic works of art. As we will see, this is the case of films such as those directed by Sayajit Ray or Amin Korki.