One of the best films there is!

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2002)

I had heard a lot about this film and I must confess that when I arrived at the cinema I was uncertain of what I would think of it. At the end I was marvelled. It had been a very pleasant evening! I think all the people that were there came out smiling! This film really makes us feel happy and with very positive attitude towards life. Roberto Benigni has showed us, in the most original way there is, that even the worst part of life always have a happy side, and that with should in every moment there is try to find to happy side and seize it! It is a key for happiness. The sacrifice a father made for is son, made the son live the best way he could in a Nazi concentration camp, and gave the father an undeniable sense of accomplishment in the way to he never stopped making all the efforts to make is son happier. He found a sense to life that he persuade and that made him live. This film is a real lesson. Even if it is a utopian view of life, I think it is far better than a tragic view of life. A Tragic view of life may be realist but that doesn't give us any advantage and the power of imagination can make us travel to much interesting places. I recommend this film to anybody who wants to appreciate all the parts of life and, like the roman poet Horace wrote, "seize the day" (Carpe diem)!