I thoroughly enjoyed this old fashioned love story

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2008)

I loved this film and like some of the previous comments cannot understand how people who hate it missed the whole point of it. I know it may at times make the concentration camp seem as though it was easier than it actually was. However, I, having seen the film, and enjoyed it, am under no illusions that the war or the holocaust was fun. I know it was horrific and so do most people. The film's focus was not supposed to be a depiction of the war or it's atrocities, but of how a father coped with the situation and how the strength of his love for his wife and child enabled him to try and make the awful ordeal all the more bearable for them. It is plain and simple a love story, and that is how it should be viewed. Maybe some things would have been impossible, but it is as I said before, a story, and as such should be given the benefit of poetic justice. The humor in the first half is sweet and subtly sets the scene for the events in the second half. While the second half is bittersweet, but still humorous, and gives us hope that love is always a wonderful thing.