Great Movie with Slight Confusion and Abruption!

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2018)

Before watching this movie I knew nothing about it and so I was not sure what I was in for at all! When watching the first half of the movie, I immediately thought that this movie would have been some kind of immortal romantic relationship since the main character Guido, incessantly tried to make Dora his woman. He went through great lengths to do so as well and ended up doing so even though he was a Jew and she was Italian.
Abruptly, a child appeared, who happened to be their son, with no sign that they were even having a child to begin with, but perhaps that was intentional in some way to throw the audience off. In addition, another event that happened with no hint whatsoever was when Guido's place was trashed and we see them getting transported to the train that would take him and his son to the concentration camp. That is when I realized that this movie was about the Nazi Concentration Camps, which was about half way through the movie. Finally, I extremely disliked the part when the father was killed the day, literally, before the night when the camp was liberated, which was definitely intentional in order to keep the audience intrigued.
Historically, there were accurate portrayals of what happened exactly at the Nazi Concentration Camps such as: merciless treatment of little children and the elderly by killing them, and making the men and women work mercilessly all day as well. However at the end when Giosue was reunited with his mom, the chances of that happening during the Holocaust Era was really minimal because families were torn a part to the last degree possible. Also, the chance that a child did not get put in the gas chamber and killed was not likely, but Guido's son got lucky in the movie since he did not join the other kids when they were told to take a "shower." Overall, the fact that Guido tried his best to make it seem like they were in some kind of game was really cool and unique since he was sold on not revealing to his son, where they really were.