Monday, 19 June 2017

Life is beautiful Review

this film was directed in 1997 by Robert Benigni. I was critically well acclaimed despite having mixed emotions about the theme of the film which was the holocaust.  It won the Grand Prix at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, nine David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film, in Italy, and three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Benigni.

It says he received alot of mixed reviews on the theme of his film but if asked on my opinion, he covered a really interesting aspect to the film. I'm not sure how he managed to take something so goofy and light hearted to something so dark without making it seem too awkward.

This film was based around a Jewish man who meets the love of his life. The settle and even have a child but it's all put on hold and threatened when people are carted off the concentration camps after being labelled jews by the Nazi regime. Inorder to shield his son from the horrors going on around them, the Italian man does his best to mask everything and lie saying its all a game building up to the grand prize; an actual tank. And thanks to his fathers quick thinking, the child manages to survive the entire trip without any harm. To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of old generation films as they cringe me out mostly. But this one wasn't too bad towards the middle and conclusion. 

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