Life Is Beautiful - Film Analysis

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL – FILM ANALYSIS Life is beautiful is about “keep smiling no matter what”. The movie revolves around a character called Guido (played by Roberto Benigni), a waiter working for his uncle who owns a hotel in Italy. A man, whose life is just about making others happy no matter what, Even in his worst situations he tries to get over them keep himself smile. Guido made the film very joyous in its nature. Till the end of the movie, it makes you go through numerous emotions, you feel sad and within next moment you smile. The screenplay totally supported the mood of the movie. A well-resolved story, which had made its perceptions clear in audience’s mind. Life is beautiful sets a genre in its own and make an example for itself. Roberto Benigni himself wrote and directed this piece of creativity. Key actors we see were Roberto himself playing the character of Guido, Dora played by Nicoletta Braschi who’s his real life wife too. And forgetting that kid would be unfair, Giousue (Joshua) played by Giorgio Cantarini. The intial section of the movie starts with a very fairy tale kind of a mood. A rich, beautiful girl “Dora” engaged to man she doesn’t love and Guido is wooing her every time he sees her. On the very day of her wedding, she runs away with Guido, the man whom she loves. They start their life happily and within a passage of a scene we see that some years pass by and Guido and Dora are happily married living with little kid whom they named Joshua. The second half, both terribly sad and terribly joyous, concerns Guido's, Dora's, and their son Joshua's internment at a death camp during WWII, during which Joshua is told by his father that 'it is all a game' in order to emotionally shield him from the holocaust. Guido till the end of his life keeps his child in disguise that they’re playing a game at the camp and if they would thousand points, they
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