Movie Review: Life Is Beautiful [ Power Up 100% ]
This is a movie that made us cry, laugh and definitely left an indelible mark on the cinema. "Life is Beautiful" was released in theaters on December 20, 1997 in Italy and on October 23, 1998 in the United States.
The film tells the story of a book seller of Italian-Jewish descent, Guido, during the German occupation. Our hero meets a beautiful Italian Dora and they fall madly in love. Despite the objections of her family, she decides to marry him and they leave together. After a few years, they have a son, Giosuè. But the German threat will soon knock on their door. Guido, his son and his former uncle are transported by the Germans to one of the Nazi camps.
Dora begs the German soldiers to let her be with her husband and child, but because she is a real Italian, they do not allow her. In the camp, Guido hides his son from the Nazi guards, secretly gives him food and tries to make him not understand what is really going on, Guido decides to create a fantasy game so that his little boy does not understand where he is and for what purpose.
So he dictates the rules of the game for him to start: if he cries, complains, asks for his mom or starts to get hungry, he loses. At the same time, he explains that the German guards are the bad characters in the game. The winner's prize: a German tank!
Nevertheless, the little boy is slowly losing his patience, but the amazing interpretation of his father convinces him that he is a few points before the victory and so he follows his instructions until the end. Which I will not reveal, since I hope that those who have not seen it yet, will see it!
||Impressive information about the film||
"Life is Beautiful" is perhaps the leading artistic creation of Roberto Benini, who signs the direction, the script (along with Vincenzo Cerami), while maintaining himself and the leading role. The title of the film comes from the phrase of Leon Trotsky. Exiled to Mexico, knowing he would be killed by Stalin's assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote, "Life is beautiful."
The film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, eventually winning three in the categories: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Benini.
The number that Roberto Benini has in the concentration camp is the same as that of Charlie Chaplin's costume in the timeless film: The Great Dictator (1940).
||My opinion||
Antifascist and anti-racist, dramatic movie. Many of the scenes end up being humorous, rather dramatic, but through humor you draw hope, as from the middle of the film onwards everything evolves into a concentration camp! After all, humor can be an invincible weapon in difficult situations!