Life is Tragically Beautiful

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2013)

Recently I watched the foreign film Life is Beautiful, it gave me a sense of thought on an authors intuition for their story in other words what it brings to the audience. It is a turning of events when a man falls in love, has a beautiful child, wife, and house is forced to go to a German work camp. You can depict your own conclusions from here.
As I was watching the movie realization struck me that it had a comedic edge to it. Hopefully some will ask themselves; why is the author trying to portray "funny" in the holocaust? I came to one conclusion; the author is trying to depict a sense of relief. No one else could pull off the part but Roberto Benigni. An innocent wife could be no better co-played by Nicoletta Braschi. The intenseness of these two characters really plays a part in the plot line.
As I said earlier, Guidio (Roberto Benigni) has everything going for him. On a random day the Germans deploy every Jew onto a train and headed to the work camps. Through this you will see events and outcomes to see if Guido can save his family. The trait I mentioned in the second paragraph about the movie having a sense of "relief". To take such a powerful terrible thing like the holocaust and make something beautiful out of it is extremely extraordinary. In the graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, every living thing is an animal. The Jews being mice and German's being cats. This will make people more knowledgeable about the tragedies of work camps in Germany. Finally the twist turning end will come out of nowhere. This specific event blew and flipped my mind in the duration of a second. This particular thing made the movie personally. I love watching Roberto in action and look forward to watching more of his works. Overall, this was a beautiful story about a tragic event that inspired this movie.