“I criticized neorealism for remaining subjective and lyricizing, which was another feature of the cultural epoch before the Resistance. So, neorealism is a cultural product of the Resistance in regard to its content and message, but stylistically it is still tied to pre-Resistance culture. Basically there is something rather hybrid about it. Anyway, if you think about other products of the European Resistance, much of the poetry is written in the same style as before the war—in the use of surrealist elements, for example. This hybridization is a phenomenon common to the whole of Europe. Compared with neorealism, I think I have introduced a certain kind of realism into the cinema—but, I have to say, it would be rather difficult to define exactly what that realism is.”
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2018/02/07/interview-pier-paolo-pasolini-oswald-stack/