Review Of "Life Is Beautiful"

When I was like 8 years old I saw the "Life is Beautiful" and remain very moved by the story, until 2 years ago I have not seen it, the story begins in Italy in 1939, Guido Orefice is a funny and charismatic young Jewish man looking for work in a city. He falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is commit to a rich but arrogant civil servant. Guido declared his affection for her in many occasions , and finally wins her heart. He steals her from her engagement party on a horse, humiliating her fiance and mother. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosue

i think that Through the first part, the movie depicts the changing political in Italy as Guido frequently imitates members of the National Fascist Party. However, the Fascist wave is also evident with the Guido´s horse in stealing Dora away is painted green and covered in antisemitic insults. also reflects the impact that had the Nazism in people who lived during this period.

Later in World War II, Guido manages a bookstore and josue´s birthday day, while Dora and her mother are reconciled, Guido, Uncle Eliseo and Joshua are captured by Germans. forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Despite no being a Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, convincing him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points; the first team to reach one thousand points will win a tank. He tells him that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother, or says that he is hungry, he will lose points, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn extra points.

Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child: the guards are mean only because they want the tank for themselves; the dwindling numbers of children (who are being killed by the camp guards) are only hiding in order to score more points than Giosue so they can win the game. He puts off Giosue's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank, and need only wait a short while before they can return home with their tank. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness, and death at the camp, Giosue does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.

Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guido tries to find Dora, but is caught by a soldier. As he is marched off to be executed, he maintains the fiction of the game by deliberately marching in an exaggerated goose-step as he passes Giosue's hiding place. The next morning, Giosue emerges from the sweatbox as the camp

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