The day the clown cried?

Rating: 5/10 (29 September 2013)

I realize I'm in the minority here, but I strongly feel this film trivializes the holocaust. First of all, Benigni is annoying as hell. The film starts out okay, but halfway through the viewer is treated to a slew of historical inaccuracies: when the trains got to the camps, the children were immediately separated from the adults and exterminated, there was simply no way that a child wouldn't be discovered in the barracks. And the women had their hair shaved off, the film apparently couldn't find extras who wouldn't shave their hair, so they put unrealistic bandanas on their heads. The camp itself doesn't even look realistic, and there is no way that the prisoners had that much freedom to walk around. I actually felt sorry for the extras in the barracks, because Begnini talked so loudly and thought he was the only one who had problems, I expected them to tell him to shut up because they were suffering too.
It's puzzling why this film is rated so highly. I actually fast-forwarded through the last thirty minutes because I couldn't stand watching it any more.