Rossellini's Open City is set in Rome during Nazi occupation. It shows how “the Italian cinema was noted for its concern with actual day-to-day events”. Pina, the pregnant heroine of the film, is killed. Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, authors of the book Film History, believe that Pina’s death shocks viewers and “suggests that in real life – as opposed to the movies –good people may die pointlessly”. (Film History, p.365)
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I agree with Thompson and Bordwell that often in cinema only the villain or antagonist are the people that die. In real life however, good people die for no reason occasionally. IN war, innocence is often the first causality which in the case of 'Rome' is accurately portrayed.
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