Review of Life Is Beautiful (1997) by Junhee — 11 Feb 2019

I personally thought Life is Beautiful was a fantastic story about how the director morphed comedy into something traumatic that made it all connect. The plot went smoothly. This movie was filled with a love story, the Holocaust, and a happy family all compacted together.

At first, Guido, who is one of the main characters, is a waiter in town and falls in love with Dora. I thought that the movie throughout was funny and brilliant because Guido would plan something out when he came across Dora to make her love him.

In one of the scenes, Guido always sees a woman dropping her keys out her window, and when he brought her to that location, he said to pray to Mary for the keys and they dropped. Eventually, Guido married Dora and had a little boy named Joshua.

Guido owned a bookstore and enjoyed life. Despite that, Guido was sent to the concentration camp with his son, yet he still gave his son hope to make it out. Guido was a kind loving person who sacrificed himself for his young son so he can live on with Dora.

I loved how Guido was always positive with his son and even right before he died, he gave a sign to his son that it was going to be alright. This movie is much like Night because they all start out with a family and after the Nazis invade, they’re all sent to camp.

The father dies during the camp. Elie, who is much like Joshua, finds a way to survive, and at the end, the army saves the prisoners.