Life is beautiful is an unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
In this World War II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her pompous fiancé, so Guido has an uphill struggle. Meanwhile, anti-Semitic attitudes lead to attacks against Guido's Jewish uncle (Giustino Durano). Flash forward five years later and we see Guido owning a bookstore he manages with his wife and son Giosué. It's almost the end of World War II, but that makes the position of Jewish-Italians all the more precipitous. One day, the Germans come to take away Guido and his son. His wife, not being Jewish, chooses to go along. After they are imprisoned in a concentration camp,Guido takes a huge risk by treating the whole exercise as a joke. He explains to his son that they've just bought tickets to take part in a contest to win a tank (not a toy one, but a real one, thought of which lights up Giosué's eyes) and proceeds to concoct an imaginative and humourous explanation for the happenings around, and to, them in the German concentration camp.
All of the things Guido asks Giosué to do are in the interest of saving Giosué. I learned here that laughing in the face of adversity is the best way to triumph over it.No such piece of art has ever before combined laughter and tears of sadness in me before and that is the miracle of the movie.
Life is really beautiful as you watch Guido's relentless efforts to make a lovely exciting experience of the concentration camp to his son. You get exhausted just watching him going through his painful day and yet you smile as he speaks to his son and makes him laugh. This is a story of how a father applied various levels of creativity and sacrifice to protect a son in a Nazi camp. One can go on forever describing the creativity of this movie, but one will not be able to capture all its beauty in writing.
Watch how this beautiful story ends.
an entry for Tuesday Couch Potatoes : For the Love of Family
Life is really beautiful as you watch Guido's relentless efforts to make a lovely exciting experience of the concentration camp to his son. You get exhausted just watching him going through his painful day and yet you smile as he speaks to his son and makes him laugh. This is a story of how a father applied various levels of creativity and sacrifice to protect a son in a Nazi camp. One can go on forever describing the creativity of this movie, but one will not be able to capture all its beauty in writing.
Watch how this beautiful story ends.
an entry for Tuesday Couch Potatoes : For the Love of Family
10 comments:
Seems interesting movie. No one can measure the things that a parent can do to protect his kid, a parent can sacrifice his own life for the sake of his child. Great choice.
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I love how you wrote the summary. I kept crying at this film. It is indeed a very beautiful movie.
I love this movie Marce. Hindi ako magsasawa na ulit-ulitin ito. I'm so touched sa sobrang pagmamahal at sacrifice ni Guido just to save his only son. haist.
I'd forgotten this!!! You made the best choice, I'd have picked this had I remembered. (Oh, well, I've always had that trouble caused by too many birthday candles. Maybe I shouldn't put candles on my cake for a while, just enough for my memory to catch up, lol).
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I love this movie too Marce! Reading your post makes me want to watch it again:)
This one really breaks a heart.... We watched it during our final period of our humanities subject...way back 2005.... and yeah i still love watching it all over again!
a classic must see movie. your summary is very touching. for sure the movie itself is a lot more touching and will give chills to my bones.
this is one of the unforgettable movies that i saw... it has taught me so much, to better appreciate life, to always see the bright side of things despite no matter how grave the circumstance. this is also where my motto was born: Always choose to be happy. great pick marce!
thanks for joining this week ha. next week, we will feature School Is Fun movies. till then, take care and happy tcp! hugs!
weew! seems everyone has watched this movie already, ako nalang hindi.. kase naman wala talaga akong hilig sa hindi ponoy movie.. ngayon nalang.. haha!!! pinoy na pinoy eh noh?
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