Life is really beautiful!!!

Want to know what life can offer? Just go and watch the movie "Life Is Beautiful". This movie is really a beautiful movie with a blend of humor and a tragedy. The first half of the movie is a funny romantic comedy, a real magic and Benigni has performed outstandingly well in the role. The movie offers many things which we can learn. It teaches us that life is not only to live for ourselves but it is to protect and give every bit of happiness to them we love most. The movie shows how a normal person also can live a satisfactory and a happy life with whatever he has with him. One should not worry about what will come next. Guido is a happy-go-lucky fellow, who starts his life as a waiter in the Tuscan village and stays at his uncle's home. Guido falls in love with Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) when she accidentally falls from a barn. Next he wins her heart with his bubbly humor. The fate do seems to be destined to bring the pair together.

After seven years, Guido and Dora are now married and have a young son (Giorgio Cantarini). All is well in their lives, and at the bookstore Guido owns, until anti-semitism slowly begins to make appearances in the village, first by having store signs put up saying, "No Jews or Dogs," and then by having their own home destroyed. Guido and his son are taken away to a concentration camp and are split apart from Dora, who is forced to go with the female prisoners. Through the horrors of the Holocaust which are only briefly shown in a shocking and haunting image of a mountain of dead bodies, Guido keeps his spirits up and tells his son that everything is only a game, and if they are the first people to reach one one-hundred points, they will win the grand prize: a real, life-size tank to ride home on.

"Life is Beautiful" is a story of a man who is hopeful about the life and fights hard to keep his son and wife (his most beloved son and wife) away from the horrifying shadow of death. Although its last plot was entirely unbelievable and abrupt, it might be affected by Benigni's some of considerations related to the movie and the audience, the movie is still an achievement. I know nothing is perfect and similarly this movie also must have some flaws, but the most important lesson taught by the movie is still the considered point.

The approach it takes is like no other film I've seen. Guido gets through the later part of the film by describing their occupation of the camp as a game. He has an explanation of everything which makes it seem like fun. This sounds like it's trivializing the whole situation, and I'm sure that in the hands of any other director it would be, but somehow Benigni makes you feel in a way that films rarely achieve these days.

Benigni overplayed the cheerful father role, making everything sound exciting, so that at times even i found myself believing him that everything was going to be ok. The scenery is gorgeous too. The part that struck me being the shot at the station as the train to the camp is pulling away. No pathetic fallacy for Benigni: Life 'is' beautiful, even when perhaps it would be better for it not to be.