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== Legacy == [[Pauline Kael]] recalls: {{blockquote| When [[Shoeshine (film)|''Shoeshine'']] opened in 1947, I went to see it alone after one of those terrible lovers' quarrels that leave one in a state of incomprehensible despair. I came out of the theater, tears streaming, and overheard the petulant voice of a college girl complaining to her boyfriend, "Well I don't see what was so special about that movie." I walked up the street, crying blindly, no longer certain whether my tears were for the tragedy on the screen, the hopelessness I felt for myself, or the alienation I felt from those who could not experience the radiance of ''Shoeshine''. For if people cannot feel ''Shoeshine,'' what ''can'' they feel? ... Later I learned that the man with whom I had quarreled had gone the same night and had also emerged in tears. Yet our tears for each other, and for ''Shoeshine'', did not bring us together. Life, as ''Shoeshine'' demonstrates, is too complex for facile endings.}} Kael quotes [[Orson Welles]] as saying: "In handling a camera I feel that I have no peer. But what De Sica can do, that I can't do. I ran his ''Shoeshine'' again recently and the camera disappeared, the screen disappeared, it was just life..."<ref>{{cite news| last=Kael| first=Pauline| title=Shoeshine| url=https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/shoeshine-1947-review-by-pauline-kael/}}</ref>
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