Life is beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2020)

I would not call this film a comedy and although it has it's satirical moments and quite a lot of them this is more of a drama... The film tells a story from a completely unexpected perspective, one that you might have wondered but never saw in reality and that is what it makes it so brilliant... The main idea is to show how a person might slowly realise that the ideology one was taught might not be true and how a world of that person might fall apart bit by bit to realise the truth. The acting is superb, the kids both deserve an Oscar, so does Scarlet Johanson, because it might be her best dramatic role... The film comes at a right time, when the far right ideologies started to dominate the world and things like Brexit start to happen and fuel hatred for each other... Ironically but the film itself also has a certain ideology, the women characters are portrayed with stronger personalities maybe except Captain Klenzendorf which although is portrayed as a secret gay but turns out to be a hero... There was also one overweight brainwashed Nazi lady whose purpose was to show what having 14 children can do to your body...
So although I enjoyed the film a great deal it has a certain feminism ideology to it, but maybe with just the right balance...