the snob and pseudo expert consider it a far cry from de sica best the one suffer from a serious lack of innocence will find a problem connect to this masterpiece . de sica spoke in a very direct way . his italianness doesn not have the convolute self examination of modern italian filmmaker and or the bitter self parody of pietro germi and the pungent bittersweetness of mario monicelli and the solemnity of visconti or the cold observation of antonioni . de sica tell u the story like a father sit at the edge of his child bed before they go to sleep . there be no attempt to intellectualize . miracolo a milano and in a less degree il giudizio universale be realistic fairy tale and or what today we call magic realism . the film be a gem from begin to end and toto be the sort of character that you accept with an open heart but that and naturally and require for you to have a heart . cinema in it pure form . magnificent .