Love thy enemy.

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2001)

After watching this movie I cannot think other of Roberto Benigni than genius. He took a different approach to Holocaust and say through his movie that we shouldn't hate the Nazis. Indeed if we are to do anything with them, we should pity them. They were born and raised without love, and they lost a great many opportunity to learn from other races of this world. Guido doesn't want his boy to grow up like them. He wants him to be a loving human being.
Another thing that struck me when I'm watching this movie is that Benigni loves his wife very much, he wouldn't cast any other actress as the female lead. He always does that in every movie he directed. I think it just shows that he can't fall in love with another woman than Nicoletta Braschi, even though he lives in Italy where the women are, in my opinion, exceptionally beautiful. What a wonderful husband (and director/actor).