Comedy and Tragedy meld in a great movie

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 1999)

Benigni's story is to me one of the most touching movies about the Holocaust. Not for cruel images or shocking scenes but because there is a split between before and after the war. At the beginning the film is comedic, but during the war the humor of the film changes and something in the viewer changes too. S/he feels that something isn't the same anymore and s/he can understand that after a crime like the holocaust nothing can be like before. This film is a great experience, and Benigni has explained a difficult theme in a different way, and he has done it in a exemplary way.