Rome Open City Review

   Don Pietro is a Priest who also sides with the rebels. He excepts the fact that he must assist these violent and brutal men but knows morally that his heart lies with God and noone else. Don Pietro stands for the two sided man and the two sides every man can take with his own life, good and evil. Pina is the wife of Marcello and fiancee of Francesco. She is depicted as a strong woman, who desires the comfort of a man and father. This to me is somewhat obscured because she truley disires exactly what she claims she doesnt want, to be tied down. It is sad that she dies at the end of the film but the true grusome ending adds the the over all dramatic and twisted depth that this dark movie has. What Don Pietro meant when he said "It's not hard to die well, it's hard to live well." was that life is truley what you make it. Your daily struggles in the big picture are only fragments of what life is all about, if you allow this dim outlook to ruin your time here on earth then dying cowardly isnt much of a great option either.