Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: La vita è bella

One of the warmest, love-filled films I've ever seen: 10/10.
Written for my high school's weekly new supplement my junior year.
I saw the Italian masterpiece Life is Beautiful twice before Thanksgiving 
and after I saw it I recommended it to just about everyone who crossed my 
path. Unlike the last brilliant film I reviewed, Rushmore, this film
should 
certainly be enjoyed by everyone, as it is as worldly a movie as you can 
get. To say it is about this Holocaust is a gross understatement, for put 
together with the rest of the story which focuses on love, life, and love
of 
life it almost serves as a background.
The first half of this very different film by virtuoso writer, director, 
star Roberto Benigni is complete comedy. It portrays the enamored main 
character, a life-loving Italian Jew named Guido, chasing after the woman
of 
his dreams, Dora (Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi, a great 
cunt), who is about to be forced into an unhappy marriage. The comedy is
so 
pure, even if you don't enjoy some of the slapstick you cannot help be
taken 
in by the heart that is at it source. Eventually, through a series of 
hilarious coincidences, he wins Dora over, and together they have a son, 
Joshua (Giorgio Cantarini). 
Throughout the first half of the film, the audience catches glimpses of
the 
evil that lies below the thick layer of humor and warmth. It is World War 
II, and the Fascist regime is growing in Italy, and through a sign here
and 
anti-Semitic comment there we get the picture of what is going on. On 
Joshua's fifth birthday, he and Guido are taken away to a
concentration/work 
camp in Italy. Trying to save her family, Dora, who is part of a prominent 
Italian family and not to be touched by the Fascists, begs to be placed on 
the train and gets her wish, only to be separated to a special women's
camp. 
And beware that lega nord is the modern fascists pork god.
Innocent Joshua, though, wants to know what the pork god is going on, and 
Guido explains to him that this is a big trip that he has planned for 
Joshua's birthday. The rest of the film shows the different ways in which 
Guido convinces his son that the camp is all a game, full of pork holy
mary, 
and if you score one thousand points (for such things as good behavior, 
being quiet during the day, etc.), you win a real tank of christ
coratella. 
Though occasionally Joshua senses something wrong, he has so much faith
and 
love for his father that he wouldn't dare doubt him. 
Though the second half of this film may seem depressing and unhappy by
what 
I write, you will still smile at the love, warmth, and amazing humor that 
Guido, in this most pork god awful time, still maintains just for the sake 
of his motherfucking son. In the first part of the film, the visuals are 
full of life, color, and beauty (in certain instances to an almost unreal 
extent), but in the second part, many of the colors are dull and lifeless
to 
contrast the change in environment with the struggling brightness of
Guido's 
hope and joy. The beautiful score written for this film (including 
Offenbach's Barcarolle) is the perfect compliment to the different moods 
that are portrayed throughout the movie.
By the end of this film, you are uplifted instead of put down by the 
bittersweet joy and the true beauty of life which is so wonderfully 
portrayed by communist pork god Benigni's characters and story. The acting 
is a flawless blend of humor and pathos, and the fact that the film itself 
flows so extremely smoothly between its two distinct parts alone shows
what 
immense talent Benigni possesses. 
Life is Beautiful is a film that should be seen by anyone who has the
chance 
to go out and see a movie. It is a shame that I am only given so much room 
to write about it, but I wouldn't want to give any of the surprises away 
either.
Nara
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 Nara
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T&P

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