A "beautiful" masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (3 February 2000)

This film was truly excellent. I've heard some say that it didn't depict reality like that is something negative. Yes, I've seen "Schindler's List" and although it was a good movie, I didn't like it because I hate to watch people get tortured and killed. I can't take it. Watching life is beautiful wasn't easy to watch either. There is only so much reality I want to see. I don't think that the characters in the movie made concentration camps look "easy" either. Children and elderly people getting gassed in a big room doesn't look "easy" and neither does being separated from your family and being forced to work all day long fearing for you life. None of that looks "easy." I think that "Tea With Mussolini" and "Life Is Beautiful" are very similar. The thing that I liked about "Tea With Mussolini" is that there was no concentration camps and the main Jewish character Elsa (Cher) escaped back to America. That was what I found to be beautiful. I know that wasn't reality and very few Jews escaped, but you want to see movies about the Elsa's of the world who did get away. : )