rural versus urban morality

His neorealist films like *Bicycle Thieves* and *Umberto D.* expose the moral compromises forced upon rural migrants in corrupt urban industrial systems.

Works such as *Still Walking* and *Our Little Sister* examine how rural family values clash with urban individualism and moral pragmatism.

Films like *Kes* and *I, Daniel Blake* persistently contrast rural working-class integrity with urban institutional indifference and systemic immorality.