Review of Life Is Beautiful (1997) by David L — 12 Nov 2014

The critics concensus gives this movie less than 80%, and Top Critics' concensus is "rotten".

This only shows to me that, in fact, most of the critics of this page (and this country) are made and born to review commercial, loud, gory, "twilight"-type movies.

Appelling to its unrealistic side (I truly mean, "unrealistic"? aren't all movies unrealistic? Do they want some kind of fascist documentary?) they say that this movie is a bad joke for all the people who lived the Holocaust; isn't "Godfather" an "unrealistic mobster world", by the way? Isn't "Up" a joke to all the lonely and elder? Isn't "Memento" another "unrealistic satire" to those who have any kind of amnesic sickness?

Why these movies have great reviews and La Vita è Bella does not? (They are GREAT, of course, but Benigni's movie is too) There are some racional critcs, like Ebert (probably the best critic of the site), but in general I tend to think that all this is because they have no perspective view.

The critic's want it all chewed, so they only need to swallow. No thinking, no perspective sides, no imagination. They want plain and total "reality".

You may disagree in my point, but I truly believe, and having some good movies (most of them, foreign, by pure "coincidence") with mediocre reviews proves my statement.

Well, I liked the movie a lot, and I will still believing in Guido's actions as much as I believed in Carl Friedricksen's flying ballon house and Mary Poppins' magic umbrella.