It's the most beautiful film you will ever see

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2006)

When my father told me that the movie would be in Italian, I had my doubts because I did not want to read the movie. Little did I know how great the film would turn out. As a matter of fact, it is so great, it is almost impossible to describe.
Roberto Benigni plays Guido Orefice. Guido is an extremely goofy man who doesn't take life too seriously, but is very happy with with his life. He cherishes the life he has in every moment. He is a waiter in Italy. Nicoletta Braschi plays Dora, the girl Guido falls in love with. She is a school teacher who is marrying a rich man. But she is swept off her feet and goes head over heels for Guido Orefice. After Guido rescues her from the man she is marrying, they get married and have a son. A son named Joshua.
Joshua is a cute little boy who is goofy just like his father and loves tanks. Shortly after he is introduced, Dora comes home to find her house ransacked and her husband and son missing. She discovers that they are heading to a Nazi concentration camp in Berlin. She boards because she will not leave her husband, and the train pulls away from their little village.
They arrive in a drab world with beaten and starving prisoners. Joshua is obviously frightened by this horrible place, but clever Guido does something that will forever protect his son's innocence. He tells little Joshua that they are in elaborate game in which every prisoner is really a player trying to earn enough points to win a tank.
As the film picks up, it becomes more tense and the world seems to be crumbling around them. But Guido keeps Joshua's head up high, but things change when the war ends. Furious, the Nazis begin rounding up as many Jews as possible so they can kill them. Attempting to find Dora, Guido hides Joshua, tells him to do certain things in case he dies (he obviously coats it with something else), and leaves his son in a daring attempt.
After viewing this film, you will learn to cherish and enjoy life as it is, rich or poor, just as Guido Orefice did. You will smile, laugh, and cry. Life really is beautiful.