Wow - I can't get my heart out of my throat

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2007)

I now must put this at the top of my all-time favorites. It is haunting me. I missed the first minutes, stumbling upon it in the wee hours during an insomniac induced channel surf. It was not subtitled - rather it was very well dubbed (by the original actors I believe). After watching it, with out-loud laughter and crying to lull me to sleep, I dreamt about the lead character & his good humor spirit, imagining that I was somehow wrapped up in a life that called upon such great human dignity.
We cry and laugh at a lot of films. We dream about them. We invite them stay in our memories for decades. But only a few impact our spirit so profoundly, leaving us wanting to improve our own lives so that we can have a measure of the quality of character we have witnessed - experienced.
Rob Roy (honor), Braveheart (freedom), and now LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (joy) are the most impacting movies ever made.