A comedy that features The Holocaust, try again!

Rating: 4/10 (27 November 2018)

I cannot get my head round why people love this film so much, it's purely overrated and I don't think it deserved the awards it got.
The first half of the film focuses on Guido's daily life and his character. Which he was a very positive and optimistic human being, now that is good character development, I'll give it that. I saw what was coming in the second half of the film which was the concentration camps and it just didn't feel right at all when Guido kept the same character throughout the film. He looked so stupid and oblivious to how much danger his life was in. I was enormously disappointed with how it all turned out.
Also to mention the film's poor portrayal of the Holocaust, it seemed very trivialised. Of course the Holocaust is the most harrowing event of recent history, but the film made a very poor attempted to even feature the distress of what the victims went through. Essentially the comparison between both atmospheres from the first half and the second half would seem to be on different sides of the coin, but it didn't give us that at all.
The last moment about Guido's sacrifice for his son was not executed impressively for me. It wasn't exactly clear to me that he was protecting his son in the camp pretending that it was all a game for his son. I honestly thought it was a disgraceful thing to do and especially to those who were actually there.