Deserved best picture

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 1999)

This movie blew me away. It was the most incredibly tragic and at the same time, gloriously happy thing I have seen in a theater in a LONG time. Roberto Benigni was amazing, the directing was wonderful, many of the gags were entertaining (The egg thing at the beginning), and the story was on the whole wonderful. I have no problems with this movie. Other people, however, did. One common criticism was that it was historically inaccurate. Tell me, honestly, did it really need to be totally precise? We didn't need to know what atrocities were committed for this movie to work, we just needed to know that it was a living hell. Another criticism is the idea that it "promotes lying to your children." I do not believe that a child that small could handle the ideas that 1) He or she will be almost certainly killed, and 2) That death will be very brutal. But this is a movie review, not a philosophy forum. In short, this movie, like Life itself, is beautiful. A true must see.