It was a fable and it was as realistic as it needed to be

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 1999)

I just have to add my own two cents in here about this amazing experience of a film.
One: It was a fable and those who thought that it was an unrealistic approach to the horrors of Nazi Germany tend to tell me that they didn't know it was mean to be a fable. They missed where that was stated in the very first part of the film.
Two: Some say film didn't deal with the profound evilness of the concentration camps? A number of people that I talked to didn't even remember the scene where Benigni and his sleeping son happened upon the hill of bodies through what was thought to be fog, which turned out to be smoke from the furnaces. Maybe without that scene, one could've made some argument that the film didn't deal with the inhumanity of it all. With that scene it made it all clear what it was all about.
I could barely speak when the film was over.....