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Tragedy-comedy or just tragic comedy?, Jui 18 2002
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I just don't understand why lots of people like this movie. I decided to rent this movie after being persuaded by my persistent colleague who keeps saying that this is the best movie ever made. After watching the movie, I disagree. Why would anyone love this movie, I don't understand. But what I do understand this movie is ridiculous. It tries very hard to show that a father would do anything to save his son from the horror of war. But it's nothing but stupid illusion. You may be able to lie for a day or two, but not every day. Fatherly love is fine for me, but it is so overdone that, while watching the movie, I started to think that Benigni was trying to show that his son (Bartolomeo?) is so naive (stupid?) that he would not understand what really was happening around him. And how could Guido control those around him? Simply impossible.I give one out of five.
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Worst movie I have ever seen--minus 5 stars, Jui 8 2001
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If you saw Benigni at the Oscars, grandstanding, goofing off, doing more than any WWF wrestler has ever done to attract attention to himself, that would be be a good gauge to see if you will like this movie. If you thought that was acceptible behavior (but would you allow your children to act like that? -NO!)and found it charming, you will like the movie. If you found Benigni's behavior to be altogether deplorable and completely lacking in any humorous content, you will hate this movie. Forget about any other factor - this movie is pure Benigni - the plot, cast, setting, are practically irrelevant to whether you would enjoy the movie.Having said that, the plot in this movie is horrible - Benigni making a game out of being interned in a Nazi concentration camp for his young son to spare him the horrors of the Holocaust. It is so ridiculously implausible that it boggles the mind how people can enjoy his meanderings around the camp without getting caught by the guards. Imagine if the producers of Hogan's Heroes tried to keep everything exactly the same, but make it a heavy drama instead. It just doesn't work. Regardless of what platitudes others have said about the lightness of the human spirit, the originality of the story, the power of love,...... Blech! this movie simply makes a mockery of the Holocaust. It is shameful. Most Americans do not like children acting out and being ridiculous. Most Americans are happy to throw Jerry Lewis to the French and then mock them for their lack of taste. Most Americans switch channels when Carrot Top is the guest on Leno. Most Americans cringe horribly at the thought of putting a needle full of heroin into their own vein. So why are there so many five star reviewers out there?
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A gross abomination., Mars 12 2000
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I don't know what is more dismaying: the fraudulent film itself or the saccharine outpouring of praise that it so widely enjoys. The rank kitsch of "Life is Beautiful" lies essentially in its basic mendacious premise that perversely sentimental optimism can -- and, thus, should -- survive the soul-grinding, hope-crushing, and dehumanizing conditions of a death camp. Benigni has perpetrated an unconscionable whitewash.
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Impossible, Déc 1 1999
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Having a positive attitude and a creative immagination is one thing, but this movie asks us to believe that for the love of his child, a father is able to convince his son that life in a concentration camp is a game. Albeit a hard and difficult game, but worth the sacrifices and suffering in order to win the grand prize, a military tank. The denial is overwhelming. In fact, the denial is so overwhelming that my mind found it impossible to accept the fantasy, no matter what the reason.
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Appallingly overrated, Oct. 28 1999
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This film should have been titled "My Ego Is Beautiful." The so-called gags are weak and uninspired and, for a film that purports to be about the triumph of the human spirit blah blah blah, Begnini's character displays very little interest in any other people beyond himself. The unrealistic depiction of the concentration/extermination/labor camp actually undercuts the resonance of the "humor" in the second half. Had the filmmakers chosen to depict the dehumanizing horror of a real camp accurately, Begnini's mugging might have had a truly tragicomic effect. But setting the film in a camp in which Jewish children are allowed to live instead of being murdered on arrival and in which a prisoner is allowed to roam about unsupervised merely reduced the contrast between horror and comedy to the level of a Hogan's Heroes rerun. For a good Italian comedy about the Holocaust and WWII, rent Wrtmuller's Seven Beauties instead.
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It's a still life, Sep 23 1999
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benini in this film does to the audience exactly what his character does to his son - he shields the viewer from the horror of the holocaust. whether this is just deluded or pernicious (benini turning one of the greatest tragedies in human history into comic schtick) is not for me to say. But the film is dishonest as they come. Life wasn't beautiful in the Holocaust and for the people who survived it there wasn't a happy ending. go read Primo Levi instead.
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Is it possible to give a negative 5 star review?, Sep 20 1999
I watched this on a hotel pay-per-view TV while stranded by Hurricane Floyd and after the first half-hour I was thinking, "Grand Jury Prizewinner at Cannes?" How naked the Emperor is, and how often the self-appointed "critics" are too afraid to join the little boy in saying, "The Emperor has no clothes!" This film is at best boring and silly; at worst the most callus and offensive treatment of the subject of the extermination camps. "Funnyman" Benigni with his "rubberface" and his "humorous antics" spends the first half of the film reveling in his image of himself as a free-spirited soul undaunted by convention, using every slapstick cliche the public was bored to tears by generations ago (I kept waiting for him to rescue his "Princess" fron the railroad tracks). Unspeakably silly gags by this man who is so enraptured with himself he assumes everyone else is too...And now, let's settle in and watch how delightful he is in convincing his young boy that life in the camps is a game! Hide the child in the barracks...I actually flinched, thinking of the women who stuffed infants into the sleeves of their coats before entering the "shower rooms" in an effort to save the babies. Benigni must know about all of this, so for him to have made a movie like this indicates either an idiot (maybe he's not "playing" a character? Maybe this idiot is actually him?) or the most cynical use of the camps as a subject. Have any of you toured a camp? Dauchau, anyone? This film turned my stomach (in addition to being boring and stupid--I kept reminding myself that the French think Jerry Lewis is an incredibly wise actor--this is offensive beyond anything I've ever watched on the subject). There's a film called "Playing for Time", with Vanessa Redgrave, that I watched in Geneva years ago (called "L'Orchestre")--You want to see a parent trying to keep a child alive in the camps? Watch this, and you'll end up saying, as the Redgrave character did when someone told her it was imperative for her to live to witness to the world, "J'ai trop vue." Moi, j'ai trop vue to keep from saying this entire film belonged on the cutting-room floor, or, better still, as an idea Benigni considered and discarded as a slap in the face to what the camp victims, and the camp survivors, endured. Six million thumbs down on this outrageous piece of trash.
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Self indulgent and dishonest -- "feel good" in the worst way, Juil 2 1999
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I can't imagine who would like this except people who desperately need to believe that the Holocaust wasn't all that bad -- that all a father needed to do save his son's life was be quick witted and full of love. Every single testimony of what the death camps were like says the same thing -- there was nothing you could do to save yourself or anyone else. Survival was random. "Life is Beautiful" isn't a fairy tale; it's a pathetic delusion. Touching, perhaps, in it's sad attempt to re-write history to make it rosy and to defend the phrase "life is beautiful." Life may be beautiful, but the Holocaust was not, but you wouldn't know it from this strange, depressing film.
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Creepy, Oct. 27 2000
To make a such a movie about the Holocaust would require an extraordinary actor, who could convey the contradictory desire to spare his son and simultaneously feel the horror of being shipped to a camp. Instead, all I saw was him literally trying to make a big joke out the experience, I think because Benigni isn't capable of portraying fear while being a clown. Especially awful was the "funny interpretator" shtick for the Nazis. It was just so icky to me. I was shocked that he won Best Actor, though of course that is consistent with the travesty of the Oscars. It wasn't a true story, but at the end the boy claims "This is the story of my life" as if this were true life story. It was a cheap trick. Very dishonest.
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Are Oscars Given Out By Amoeba, Mai 26 2000
Sorry everyone but I thought this was a real turkey shoot. The humour was contrived, hammy & very lame. I guess my major reason for disliking this film was as a consequence of Benigni being both the egotistical director & star. He certainly gave himself centre stage. While his screen & real life wife was obsequiously adoring & dippy, & his screen son was just a mail-order doll for pathos. Roberto was a totally foolish character, who was unable to raise any empathy with me. We don't actually get to see who shoots Roberto - but I would be more than happy to admit to pulling the trigger.The fact that this farce was set during the infamous holocaust was not a problem for me - but clearly offensive to some people. I suspect that people who cried during this film, would also have cried during "Pretty Woman". As both films make a fairytale out of a harsh reality.
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