Life Is Beautiful

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Summary: Life is truly Beautiful!!
Review: Unlike most movies, Life Is Beautiful has managed to mix romance, comedy, and incredible sadness and coming out with an amazing film!

In the start, we meet a young Italian man named Gweedo. He and a friend move to the big city and move in with his uncle. On random occasions, Gweebo unexpectedly bumps in to Dora, a schoolteacher. This develops in to a budding romance, and they eventually get married ad have a son, Joshua. This is where the sadness begins. On Joshua's birthday, he and his father are taken away to a concentration camp, and his mother talks her way in to, not wanting to be separated from the rest of the family. Joshua, not knowing where they are going, becomes frightened, and Gweedo, in an attempt to calm him, Gweedo invents the story of 'The Game'. In The Game, whomever gets to 1000 points first wins a tank (Something that Joshua really wants). One of the best ways to get points is to remain hidden from the Nazis.

This was a very well made and thoughtful film, and in the end, you will truly believe that Life is Beautiful!

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Summary: No Greater Love
Review: This film hits every part of your emotions - from laughter to tears and everything else in between. I was awestruck by the way he was determined to protect his son from knowing the real reason they were taken away from their home and all they knew. His endless strength and love to keep his child from knowing fear broke my heart. It's an effort that, as a parent, I can realate to.

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Summary: life is beautiful, that is true!!
Review: This movie was a awsome movie that i watched over and over. I like the way the father played that game with his son even tho if it was a real camp he probly wouldn't of gotin away with it.The movie did so some truth in it like the gass chamber and the work shops were they made weponds for the german army.over all i think u should see this movie because it will make u sad and happy at the same time. I give it 5 stars!!!!

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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This was an excellent movie. Roberto played the role extremely well. The situations he and his family faced were close to being real it made the movie somewhat believable. The dedication Roberto showed to his son, and "the game", were incredible. The only bad part about this movie is the end. If you have seen the movie you know what I'm talking about, if you haven't seen the movie, Watch it. The little boys determination and dedication to winning the prize, is extremely believable. If you tell a little kid anything long enough they will believe you. I dont usually like foreign films or movies from way back when, seeing as how I'm 16. But this movie really touched me, and now I am recommending it to you. But make sure you have no interuptions. This is a great movie.

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Summary: Its a Beautiful life!
Review: I really liked this film, it was excellent. The main actor Robert Bengini is very hillarious. The beginning of the movie is just non stop laughter. He has his eye's on a very special lady who's husband is a nazi, in which the movie is taken place in Italy in the 1930's at the beginning of the holocost. Gweedo,(Bengini) is jewish and lives with his uncle who is a locally known jew. Some nazi's come and raise hell and graffiti on his shop. so after a few years he falls in love and marrys her. They have a child joshua who is loved dearly by them. When the nazi's come to take them to concentration camps, the mother isnt jewish but goes anyway to support them. Gweedo tells his son that its a big game. The winner will win a tank, so joshua is really hoping to win the tank and they just need 1000 points to win it. Over all a very sad but funny movie.

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Summary: I Finally Get it Now.
Review: So of course like most people I've learned about the holocaust in school, and like most people I was shocked and little disturbed by the images shown to me, the fact human spirit can survive through anything(...). That's all good and dandy, but I never really got it. I never really understood. The stories I was taught... Anne frank and Gerda they seemed surreal to me...this...this was different those actors they weren't really fimilar to me. They seemed real. They made me see. I cried, because I saw. The movie, this movie, It made me see.

If you haven't seen it see it. If you've already seen it go watch it again, and remember life is what you make it, and even in the darkest of places life is beautiful.

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Summary: Life is Beautiful and so is this movie!
Review: Not much to be said that hasn't been said before. If you like foreign films in line with Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, etc., there is no doubt you will enjoy Life is Beautiful. This is NOT a film about the holocaust, but rather the extent of a father-son bond and the lengths a father will go to protect the family that he loves.

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Summary: La Vita è Bella
Review: This movie is by far the best movie I've ever seen! It's the only movie that has made me both laugh and cry. Anyone who says it is insensitve obviously wasn't paying attention. The movie has two distinct halves: the first is comical and is about how the main character Guido falls in love with a woman named Dora. The second half is dramatic. This is when they get married and have a son and get taken to a concentration camp. It is sad to see the devotion Guido has to his son and how much trouble he goes to to make sure his son doesn't get horrified by the truth of what is going on.

The DVD also deserves 5 Stars. The picture is very clear and presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to www.widescreen.org). The Italian audio quality is also very good. But whatever you do, do not watch this movie dubbed! The English does not fit at all with the Italian, and some lines have been re-written (horribly) to better coincide with the Italian. Also, the actors who did the dubbing seem to switch back and forth between really fake Italian accents and American accents. Trust me, after about 15 minutes you'll forget you're reading subtitles, you just read them automatically without thinking.

All in all, it is probably wise to first rent this movie. It seems most people either love it or hate hit.

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Summary: Life is annoying
Review: This is one of the most annoying movies I've ever seen. Why does this suck- 1) Roberto is a clown who overacts. 2) the movie is a rip-off of Chaplin big-time. 3) he just isn't funny 4) he is annoying, annoying, annoying. and I don't believe his kid would be so dumb as to think "my friends are all dying, but it it a game! ha ha!" I hate Nazis- I myself am Jewish & have had relatives die in the c camps. But this movie succeeded in making me cheer for the Nazis- so Roberto can be put out of his misery. But spare the wife and child. Insensitive? Please- if anyone acted like that in real life I doubt you'd get much sympathy. The only reason people like this film is because it's about the holocaust and how "killing Jews is a bad thing". I respect Roberto's ATTEMPT at trying to make humor out of this atrocious situation, but all he succeeded in doing was making me loathe his character & his steriotypes of Germans. For a much better film, I recommend "The Pianist"- there is humor in that too, although the characters are believeable enough that you actaully feel sad when they are taken to the camps, as opposed to old Roberto, who you wish it would have happened sooner.

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Summary: In reply to MRD...
Review: After reading MRD's review I had to give my two cents on the subject!
If you think that the idea of the movie was to ridicule what life was like in a concentration camp during WWII, think again, and watch the movie one more time 'cause you mustn't have paid attention the first time.
I see the characters portraied in this movies as heroes. The perception I got out of it was one of the highest respect (on the part of Benigni) for all those who went to great lenghts trying to survive the horrors they were put through on a daily basis, sometimes offering themselves for the ultimate sacrifice to protect each other and/or their loved ones.
The bitter smiles during the "funny" parts of the movie did nothing but reinforce the feeling of outrage and sadness we all feel (or should feel) when thinking of that.
It's a marvelous movie!
A celebration of life!
Bravo Roberto!!!