Life is Beautiful
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Movie Reviews of Life is Beautiful
Movie Review: A Funny and Romantic Masterpiece.
Summary: 5 Stars
If this story ended just after Guido married Dora it would still be one of the best movies I have seen. In its entirety it is truly a masterpiece and in many ways.
First, Guido's joking, humorous, positive attitude is a great example for all of us to follow. We each create our own realities. We can't change a lot of things,so why not not be happy and make jokes about everything,like Guido does, even when life is at its darkest moments?
Second, Begnini takes a very serious drama of one of the darkest periods in history and makes a comedy out of it.
Third,who would think that Dora, a gentile, would finally choose to marry the lowly Guido, when she is already the fiance of a wealthy (but boring) aristocrat. The scene where he steals her away is wonderful. If you ever want to explain the use of Jewish chutzpah, this scene is as good as it gets.
Finally,this is a romantic masterpiece. Guido's devotion to his wife and son is perhaps the most overpowering part of the movie. If only we could all treat our wives and children that way! Their happiness and security is all he lives for. He puts their lives ahead of his no matter what the consequences.
The ending of the movie is so touching, you must be prepared to cry. Have several handerchiefs handy.
I was introduced to the movie by a friend, and almost by accident. How fortunate I was to know about this movie. It will always be very close to my heart.
Movie Review: A regained love and regard for life
Summary: 5 Stars
Life is Beautiful is a film I will always love on a greater level than I have loved any film. It presents life, love, and pain together in an experience that is not just a portrait or a tale, but a treasure for the soul. It teaches and reminds us of emotions that we don't feel often enough. Torn between joy and sadness, the tears flow blissfully and give such a feeling of beauty that one becomes overwhelmed and falls instantly in love with this creation.This may seem strong or exaggerated if you've not seen this film, or if you saw it and were blinded by the blend of comedy and the holocaust. This is a base view and if this blocked your enjoyment of the film, please hear this: the film does not make light of the holocause or suggest that it did not cause such magnitude of pain that we cannot understand it; the film is so poignant because you experience the joy of a family filled with life and see it fight the terror. I'm enamored by this strategy and I want to experience it again. Though in one moment I felt such sadness and even anger, the recollection of the joy that preceded it [in the film] and the knowledge that some of that joy will live and grow, brings a perfect blend of emotion which leads me directly to a viewpoint on life that is realistic and at once optimistic, hopeful, and seeking beauty. I recommend this film in such high regard that I believe it will change your perspective, or remind you of a perspective you've lost or left.
Movie Review: Life is beautiful?!?..yeah right (if only people were humans
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this movie from the comedy section. I had absolutely no idea that it'll leave me sobbing after all the laughters I've had by watching it.Guido, lives in Italy and he's a remarkable man with great sense of humour. He meets his principesa by accident and soon she becomes his wife and gives birth to a very bright boy. Then the bloody Nazis show up - Guido and his son are taken away in the camps and then Guido's wife joins their fate too but she's kept seperate from them.
Guido is a very caring father to his son and from the very beginning he keeps telling him that this is only a game so he wouldn't get scared from this absurd but most of all so his son couldn't get killed by damned Nazis.
I've probably seen hundreds of movies on Jews sufferings. I must have read hundreds of books too - sad ones that would break my heart into zillion pieces but only after I've watched this movie I realised that I lacked the 100% sympathy to Jews for what they've gone through from sadistic Nazis. God damn them.
I know from my own experience that wars and racial hatred are totally wrong but it was only this movie that really taught how bad wars can really be. Just how many nice,remarkable,full of life people like Guido were killed in wars until now?!?
I wonder will they ever stop...and in case they don't I truly hope there'll be wars in which Greed,Hate,Jealousy and Fear would get massacred - not people. Only then Life would have been beautiful.
Movie Review: One of the most important movies ever made.
Summary: 5 Stars
The holocaust is a subject that definitely has no comic twist to it...yet Roberto Benigni manages to enchant and enthrall his viewers with a poignant look at it. The story is so touching, so hauntingly beautiful that five stars alone aren't enough for it. Like Amazon.com's reviewer said, "he accomplishes the impossible"...the film is basically told in two parts. The first part tells of the story of Guido(Roberto Benigni) who keeps having accidental encounters with a young, beautiful woman, Dora (played by Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's wife off the screen), and he is so fixated by her that he does literally everything he can to see her again. In the second part, Dora and Guido are married and have a son, Guosuè. Guido and his son are taken off to a concentration camp, but Guousuè is much too young to understand the enormity of the horrors around him, and Guido knows this, so he makes it look like a big game for his son...a game where upon the contestants, amassing a total of 1000 points, win a tank- a real one. It's a genuinely heartwarming film with glorious performances by all. It's so original, so engaging, once you start you don't want to stop watching it...this film is one of the best films I've ever seen, and also I believe that all the awards it got, it deserved. It's a beautiful, haunting film with a very powerful message. Nobody in their right mind would want to miss this. Bravo, Benigni, bravissimo.Movie Review: Emotion Potion
Summary: 5 Stars
I had heard of this movie when it came out. I had even heard people recommending the movie but I wasn't interested. An Italian movie that isn't mob related? What a rip off. But one down day I was curious and needed something "beautiful." I rented the movie with no idea of the plot. Like everyone else I laughed through the first half and was completely caught off guard when the family ended up in the concentration camp. Unlike Hollywood movies I was not able to predict what was happening. I sat on the edge of my seat, held my breath, laughed some more and cried. I wanted to turn it off but couldn't. At the end I was a bundle of emotions, I hated the movie and remained that way until I watched it a second time. I hated the movie because of all the emotions it caused in me. I can't remember the last movie that did that. Then I realized that the movie was about a dad and his love. Mostly his love for his son. And his son's love for him and his wife's love for her husband and son. But more than anything the father and son. If this man was able to respect and maintain the innocence of his son in the tragedy of the holocost (which I understand could not have really happened but its just a movie folks)then imagine how we can fare with our children outside of a holocost? This is a great movie for anyone who has children, works with children or was a child. *Watch it with someone you feel comfortable hugging.*