影片叙述的故事很轻量化，它讲述的是一个应聘者的自行车被偷，到寻找到过程，最后，他也成为了偷自行车的人，社会偷我的，我也必须从社会拿回来，或许，这也是影片末尾主角内心的心理斗争吧。其实电影末尾有点虐待儿童，它让一个儿童看见了自己的父亲偷了自行车被一群人尾随的狼狈，有点破坏孩子的童真。主角里奇是一个孩子的父亲，在人类社会交集的过程中他比较的弱项，电影也以此为蓝本显示出了现实的部分边缘人物，他们的文化学识是比较低的，是穿梭在大街小巷的劳动人士，虽然他们给人的感觉是个人能量比较的低和软弱的身躯，但不能带有色眼镜看别人，要尊重他人。那么影片是怎么围绕主角里奇开始的呢？在一个下午，人群拥挤，人们聚在招聘者面前，等候着安排，里奇被分到了贴海报的工作，每个月收入不菲，还有一笔不小的补贴，但是这份工作需要一辆自行车，玛利亚得知这件事情后略带生气的扯下尼龙和棉制的床单说：“我们睡觉可以不用床单，对吧？”尼龙和棉制的床单卖了7500元，自行车花了6000元，这一段之后的观影，剧情会显得很悬疑——即里奇的自行车在何时会被偷，这里的感受会显得很漫长，与后来他贴海报时被小偷迅速的偷掉形成对比，但没有什么重要的意义吧。电影很轻量化，也很具象，他们报警和分工巡逻，但就像最后神婆说的“今天没有找回来，那永远都不会找回来”，在浩大的城市找一辆自行车是很难的，而且他们在作证的细节上还存在缺失，缺失人物长相，缺失目击者的名字，但一切都那么的迅速，主角难免会顾虑不到这些。影片是新现实主义制作方式的经典电影，背景在罗马，真实的记录城市样貌，新现实主义电影主要刻画二战后人类的失业、贫困和饥饿，很多画面都显示的很真实，这也就是现实主义的制作手法所体现的直观感觉。
The story told in the film is very light hearted. It tells the story of a job applicant whose bicycle is stolen, the process of finding it, and finally, he becomes the one who steals the bicycle. Society steals mine, and I must retrieve it from society. Perhaps this is also the psychological struggle of the protagonist at the end of the film. In fact, there is a bit of child abuse at the end of the movie. It allows a child to see their father stealing a bicycle and being followed by a group of people, which somewhat destroys the child’s innocence. The protagonist Richie is the father of a child, and in the process of human society intersection, he is relatively weak. The movie also uses this as a blueprint to show some marginalized figures in reality. Their cultural knowledge is relatively low, and they are laborers who shuttle through the streets and alleys. Although they give the impression of low personal energy and weak bodies, they cannot see others with colored glasses and must respect others. So how does the film start around the protagonist Richie? On a crowded afternoon, people gathered in front of recruiters, waiting for arrangements. Richie was assigned the job of posting posters, earning a decent monthly income and a considerable subsidy, but this job required a bicycle. Upon learning of this, Maria, feeling slightly angry, pulled off the nylon and cotton sheets and said, “We can sleep without sheets, right? What important significance is it. The movie is very lightweight and concrete. They call the police and patrol separately, but as the goddess said in the end, ‘If we don’t find it today, we’ll never find it again.’ It’s difficult to find a bicycle in the vast city, and there are also missing details in their testimony, such as the appearance of the characters and the names of witnesses. However, everything is so fast that the protagonist inevitably cannot consider these. The film is a classic example of the new realism production method, set in Rome, which realistically records the appearance of the city. The new realism film mainly depicts the unemployment, poverty, and hunger of human beings after World War II, and many scenes are displayed very realistically, which is the intuitive feeling reflected by the realism production method.