Life Is Beautiful
Posted 14th February 2009 at 03:41 PM by sundarusha
Updated 15th February 2009 at 12:15 AM by sundarusha (category)
Updated 15th February 2009 at 12:15 AM by sundarusha (category)
It was a pleasure to watch this movie on Valentine's Day.I bought it from the library for a few bucks in their gift shop. I can't imagine anyone who will donate it to the library and not want to keep it!
Life Is Beautiful is Roberto Benigni's delightfully funny and hauntingly beautiful WW11 romantic comedy, tragedy about love, and sacrifice.
The movie unfolds in two parts.In the first, Guido ( Benigni) is an Italian waiter who is courting a pretty schoolteacher Dora, whom he greets with "Buon Giorno Principessa" ( good day, Princess). Guido woos his princess with the only way he can --humor.
Soon we learn that being a Jew, he, Dora and their young son Joshua are deported to a concentration camp,where Guido protects his son from the horrors they will face the only way he can--humor.
Oh! The boy is so adorable!
Trying to hide the boy from the camp officials( who put the other children to death), Guido tells Joshua that the concentration camp is actually an elaborate role-playing game in which the "players" are competing for points in the hope of winning a real battle tank. He teaches the boy that he must keep away from the officers seeing him by hiding under sheets. This, in addition to not asking for food, crying for mamma will earn him points to win the tank.
The romantic moments when Guido slips into a room and turns the record to play a song that he and Dora enjoyed together and when he announces her name as his "principessa" in a a loudspeaker to cheer her up touch the heart.
A beautiful movie to watch.
Life Is Beautiful is Roberto Benigni's delightfully funny and hauntingly beautiful WW11 romantic comedy, tragedy about love, and sacrifice.
The movie unfolds in two parts.In the first, Guido ( Benigni) is an Italian waiter who is courting a pretty schoolteacher Dora, whom he greets with "Buon Giorno Principessa" ( good day, Princess). Guido woos his princess with the only way he can --humor.
Soon we learn that being a Jew, he, Dora and their young son Joshua are deported to a concentration camp,where Guido protects his son from the horrors they will face the only way he can--humor.
Oh! The boy is so adorable!
Trying to hide the boy from the camp officials( who put the other children to death), Guido tells Joshua that the concentration camp is actually an elaborate role-playing game in which the "players" are competing for points in the hope of winning a real battle tank. He teaches the boy that he must keep away from the officers seeing him by hiding under sheets. This, in addition to not asking for food, crying for mamma will earn him points to win the tank.
The romantic moments when Guido slips into a room and turns the record to play a song that he and Dora enjoyed together and when he announces her name as his "principessa" in a a loudspeaker to cheer her up touch the heart.
A beautiful movie to watch.
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Dear ,
Yes ! i saw the movie,it so beautiful,actually i had forgotten this movie, thanks for reminding.
JayaPosted 14th February 2009 at 10:00 PM by Jpatma
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I saw the movie in a film festival in my city . It was very heart touching especially the last scene when the father marches his way to death and still manages to make his son smile . Very sad story !Posted 15th February 2009 at 03:28 AM by mayachaudhuri -
Dear Jaya
Glad to know you liked it. Although I have seen 'Shindler's List' and read Wisel's 'Night', on the topic of holocaust, this movie was different.Posted 16th February 2009 at 03:29 PM by sundarusha - Dear Maya
I liked the scene you have mentioned and also the one where a big tank shows up in front of the little boy to rescue him and unite with the mother.Posted 16th February 2009 at 03:30 PM by sundarusha - hi Sundarusha,
a wonderful movie ..got best picture Oscar too ! tear jerker as well ..I laughed and cried alternately through out the movie
jaijui
jaijuiPosted 12th March 2009 at 05:38 PM by jaijui0
