More than just entertaining.

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2000)

Life is truly beautiful. The whole story is based on a half-full cup and not a half-empty one. The horrific evils of the holocaust are not subdued in the least. The looks and gestures of the nazis will hit us all hard as we cringe even in this comedy film. We all know the ins and outs of those monsters. But do we realize that even in the concentration camps, people who valued charity more than anything, died living their last days exemplifying such a virtue? Is our society so beyond this realization? Would you be able to do the same for your child? Or are we so enveloped in self-satisfaction, that we miss the very premise of this film? We can and should go beyond the human condition. Why? Because we can.