Disturbing.

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 1999)

After watching the film, I am still disturbed over the story. A Jewish father plays games with his son in a Nazi death-camp. I have read a lot of books on the subject of the Holocaust, and none of them ever led me to believe that there was any reason for celebration or games by children or adults in the concentration camps. What makes this idea very sickening is the actual fact that children were either quickly disposed of in the gas chambers or were used for hideous experiments by Nazi doctors. Benigni tries to make light of the realism of the Nazi goal of the "final solution" for the Jews and others. What made the Academy think he deserved best actor for this film? I did not see any spectacular acting. It would have been best if the film had not ever been made.