Story Analysis - Dramatica. As a statement against war and inhumanity, Life is Beautiful's insight into the personality of victims who did not allow themselves to be victimized is every bit affecting as the large scale depictions illustrated in Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line .
Life is Beautiful is introduced as a fable.
On their young son Giosue's birthday, Dora's mother has finally reconciled to her daughter marrying a working class Jew. Dora volunteers herself as a prisoner, and is immediately separated further from husband and son. From a Dramatica point of view, however, each contains a functional storyform that carries equal weight. The Russian writer Nabokov, he wrote that he saw, one day, people were trying to pull out a big tree by the roots, and they weren't able to pull it out. Then one of them jumped on the tree and started to sing.