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Very disappointed, Janv. 25 2004
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I debated on renting this movie for months and I finally broke down and got it after reading through all the reviews here.
It was a huge let down to say the least. This film is so over the top and unrealistic it borders on ridiculous. And like another reveiwer said, it is one coincidence after another from beginning to end. I anticipated a poignant film. I expected to cry for the characters and it was impossible to do so considering the silly antics of the lead actor which never ended during the entire film. There are no horrific or realistically sad scenes to cry over anyway. The little boy was no more convincing in his role than the lead actor and the wife was a deap pan non-entity. I can see now after viewing it why so many here are disgusted by the way it turned a horrid event into a high-drama Dick Van Dyke movie. I truly hope none of the Holocaust survivors subjected themselves to this travesty. Btw, I gave it two stars because the scenery and photography was exceptional.
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Life is Beautiful, Movies can be Weird, Déc 1 2003
After skimming the reviews here, Roberto Benigni has obviously struck a chord with a lot of people.
I would not argue with them but I found myself with the reviewer who called this film MR. BEAN GOES TO AUSCHWITZ. Actual history proved just too distracting for me to get caught up in this "fable." Actually, the film I kept thinking of has never been seen: Jerry Lewis' THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED. I've read the script and I can only imagine the reviews of that film if it was ever released! (Now there's a film in itself: a daffy but deranged filmmaker, popping pills and performing pratfalls, producing his movie about a German clown entertaining Jewish kids on their way to the ovens. Yikes.) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL doesn't go that far, but I found myself constantly distracted by Benigni's rubbery slapstick taking place in a concentration camp. Yeah, it's sweet that he wants to spare his son the horrors of the camp...but they're in a camp, a concentration camp.
The first half of the film actually plays like a whimsical, slightly-more-witty Jerry Lewis movie. Then the Nazis arrive. Individual scenes manage to touch and charm, but overall it just feels very odd. Jerry Lewis must have gone nuts when Benigni won the Best Actor Academy Award (William Goldman, the sage of screenwriters, certainly did in print by saying this was the greatest Oscar abomination since THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH won Best Picture in the 1950s). I admit I was put off at Benigni's antics at the Oscars--"I LUFF YOU, I LUFF YOU ALL, I MAKE LUFF TO YOU ALL!" I can't even picture Jerry Lewis carrying on that much if he'd won Best Actor for THE BELLBOY. Now that I think about it, maybe he would.... Yes, movies are a great escape from reality--but there are some realities that shouldn't be part of that escape.
We have new generations of kids coming up who are quite removed from the terrifying reality of the Holocaust and the near-slapstick version of it portrayed in LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL could diminish the true horror of it.
That heaviness, that memory, made buying into the humor nearly impossible.
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Do not see unless you want your heart ripped out, Oct. 9 2002
I'm in the minority of people who hard a very hard time with this movie. Yes, there was much that I appreciated about it, especially the magical romance in the first half. When the action moved to the concentration camp, I wish I had followed my gut instinct and turned the movie off then and there.Setting the rest of this movie in a concentration camp just ddoesn't work for me. I cannot ignore the knowledge that great cruelty and unimaginable suffering occured in places like this. If you are a sensitive person, I suggest you skip this movie. It'll rip your heart out by making you care so deeply about the characters and then.... well I don't want to give away the ending. Let's just say, I was left very sad, NOT uplifted at all.
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More Appropriately Titled "Life is Strange and Unrealistic", Janv. 20 2002
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This movie took me completely by surprise. It went from goofy to just ODD. The beginning wasn't too bad, but there was far too much time spent introducing the characters. Too many of the characters "disappeared" throughout the movie as well. And I don't mean they were killed off. What happened to Guido's friend in the beginning? What ever happened to Dora's fiance? What was the significance in the grandmother's reappearance? And what about the doctor and "It has to be the duckling!!"? Wasn't he reintroduced to the story in order to help and play some part in the outcome? But he really didn't at all. And personally, I hardly think there's anything funny about Nazi death camps. (Which, by the way, were not portrayed as severe as in actuality. I realize the movie was not meant to be historical, but I don't find myself very comfortable with this sugar-coated version of a camp, especially when so many people have actually denied the existence of them all together, it just seems too touchy -and important- a subject to overlook its seriousness.) Although the father may have had good intentions continually lying to his child, in reality that kid would have just turned out really MESSED UP, not to mention Guido would have been killed nearly 10 times throughout the movie. The movie drags on too long for a plot with no real climax. Two stars for good actors and a cute kid. But a more appropriate title for this movie would be "Life is Strange and Unrealistic." I suppose that wouldn't be a big seller..
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Please Be Careful, Oct. 17 2001
It has taken me months to finally come to a decision on this movie. There is a review on this page that says it best: "If you know a lot about WW II and the Holocaust, then the movie is hard to watch and it's hard to accept that its humor fits. But if you are new to the subject or feel rather emotionally distant from it, perhaps you can enjoy the movie as a moving inspirational story. Perhaps." I found this movie's lighthearted, sanitary, and comic portrayal of the Holocaust under a wall of sentimentality extremely hard to accept. Yet, at the same time, each and every person who I know who has seen it and who is not as familiar with the Holocaust and WWII as I, has found it to be a tragic story. For those familiar with the time period, you know that "tragic" is a tame and happy word when used next to "holocaust". There simply are no words to adequately describe the depths of that time. I have to conclude beyond doubt that the fact that it has won so much acclaim attests to the fact that the perspective of the Holocaust has begun to fade irretrievably from memory. This is most distressing.
But I must say, Robert B. is great in the first half where he meets courts his wife. And also, I confess, the scene where he's translating for the German Guard in the camp...I found myself laughing despite myself. I love Robert B.'s humor. Still, please be careful to understand history before letting this movie to close to you. It is as real as a pink plastic Easter egg.
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Please Be Careful, Oct. 17 2001
It has taken me months to finally come to a decision on this movie. There is a review on this page that says it best: "If you know a lot about WW II and the Holocaust, then the movie is hard to watch and it's hard to accept that its humor fits. But if you are new to the subject or feel rather emotionally distant from it, perhaps you can enjoy the movie as a moving inspirational story. Perhaps." I found this movie's lighthearted, sanitary, and comic portrayal of the Holocaust under a wall of sentimentality extremely hard to accept. Yet, at the same time, each and every person who I know who has seen it and who is not as familiar with the Holocaust and WWII as I, has found it to be a tragic story. For those familiar with the time period, you know that "tragic" is a tame and happy word when used next to "holocaust". There simply are no words to adequately describe the depths of that time.
But I must say, Robert B. is great in the first half where he meets courts his wife. And also, I confess, the scene where he's translating for the German Guard in the camp...I found myself laughing despite myself. I love Robert B.'s humor. Still, please be careful to understand history before letting this movie to close to you. It is as real as a pink plastic Easter egg.
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This life is not so beautiful..., Sep 13 2001
About a year ago I wrote a controversial review over this movie. I decided to pull it off in the end because I realized it didn't convey my opinion correctly.
Today I want to repeat my efforts to point out the things that were wrong in this film, because I truly think someone did here something unjustified and got away with it.I know the most see it a remarkable 'human spirit victory', not me.To begin with, it's all attached to the way you allow yourself to perceive the Holocaust.
Most recently, I've read the opinion of an Austrian Philosopher, that his beliefs raised much ado in the European academies. He has published an article that, in short, speaks about the need to percept the actuality of the Holocaust as another tragedy among many in the 20th century. He reminds us that there were more than a few like-Shoas genocide events and that one shouldn't dramatize this in particular.
He resents the sacredness people are giving to the Holocaust, and claims that it harms the greater goal of healing and evolving to a better humanity as a whole. Why have I mentioned this ? Because I suspect his thoughts, in a way , are given form in this film.
First of all, you'd have to agree with me that the main subject of this movie is the Holocaust(and the efforts to inclose it from the child). Moreover, it's not just a comedy - it has a purpose. Now we can begin our journey. Half a movie is evidently almost a pure comedy. The terror that is to come is cued, very subtly. With the other half I have my problems, because here we really enter the concentration camp, and the Holocaust.
Up till now, ok, the father concealed the truth from the son -and from the rest of the viewers. But once in the camp - the comedy continues, AND, a person can get the impression that this is what it really was.I would causiously say taht you might give legitimacy to Holocaust deniers by screening this film-they will find a lot to hang on to. It's wrong to put things in this light. You see the reality of the camp through the eyes of a child ,as a game, and people might think - hell, maybe that what it really was, everything else is another pulp fiction of the Jews ! I feel that this movie help those who are responsible, or feel responsible to polish their conscience. How? By pretending it wasn't that bad, not to say it wasn't at all. Recall this scene: after the supper with the Germans, the father takes his son to their quarters. There is mist all around, and everything is foggy - and exactly then he witnesses for the first and last time a stack of dead bodies ,apparently Jews, the only innuendo in the film for what is really going on . He fortunately succeeds in preventing his son from seeing.The wrong is the whole atmosphere which allude us this was all a dream,a Nightmare - the dead pile wasn't real!
Look, I didn't spend watching the movie searching for things like that, but it just popped up and really bothered me - and there are more examples like that .
I admit, an article I'd read before I saw the movie influenced me. But aren't we all ?
We criticize things all the time - so why regard a 'non harmful' comedy, when it is about the Shoa, as it is? I looked deeper and found disturbing messages all over the film that I feel shouldn't be ignored. That's why it was important for me to express it, even though most folks disagree. Do not take the film as innocent as it appears! This 'comedy' had a purpose, and it wasn't just to entertain us. Getting back to the Philosopher I started with, this film is the first I know ,that allows itself to look in another glasses over the ,up to this point, a somber ,terrible and serious tragedy. 'All the sudden' it is fine not to dramatize the whole concept . We can start talking now with the 'take it easy' terms. It's not a major disgraceful point in the humanity evolution anymore, like it can be interpreted from the opinion of the Philosopher. I hope reading this clarified your understanding of my resentment from the movie,though you may still wouldn't agree with me...
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Dont say you dont like it!!, Jui 1 2001
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For the film critic from Canada, I find it interesting that you posted a review saying you loved this movie yet you discouraged someone with a different opinion from posting his review. What, is everyone's opinion supposed to be the same as yours? How boring! I agree that Roberto was begging for laughs, and begging to be loved. The whole first half of this movie was bizarre slapstick. Then it segued into a serious drama that to me was incredibly unconvincing. One can argue that this is a fantasy, but I believe the Holocaust deserves a more accurate portrait. The concentration camp reminded me of something built on a Hollywood backlot. I did find the ending to be surprising and effective, but what came before was merely average. For real humor (though dark), and an intense depiction of the horrors of the Holocaust, I would recommend Schindler's List. Life is Beautiful was just too cloying and scattered.
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Holocaust Revisionism, Aoû 26 2000
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Set in the 1930s and '40s, "Life is Beautiful" opens by claiming that the story it tells is a fable, and fittingly, the first half of this film is light and entertaining. Benigni captures the audience with optimistic humour, and Chaplinesque physical comedy as he tries to romance the woman of he has fallen in love with. As the romance progresses we are introduced to the theme that will dominate the second portion of the film: antisemitism. Benigni's character is Jew, and is sent to a concentration camp; his wife joins him and their son, rather than let the family be separated. The (mis)representation of the concentration camp (everyone's head was shaved; children were sent straight to the gas chamber; no one was able to maintain a positive sense of humour [see Primo Levi's book, "the Drowned and the Saved"]), which is obviously meant to be Auschwitz, amount to a revision of the Holocaust intended to make it a palatable and potentially humorous subject for the audience, but which also effectively denies the horror and pain of that event. This, coupled with the film's opening claim that the story it portrays is "a fable", provide more ammunition for Holocaust deniers. "Life is Beautiful" is essentially the story of a man who overcomes great adversity for the sake of his family -- a moralizing story which is too weak to be told against the background of a fictionalization of the Holocaust.
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Life Is Not So Beautiful, Jui 16 2000
I am not doubting Roberto Benigni's talent for he certainly has talent. What I do doubt is how good this film really is. This is one of those films where at the end I was so depressed and it pretty much ruined what was left of my day. The film is set up as a romantic comedy that is just so lavish and well done. By the time the first half was up I felt like it was the happiest film I had ever seen. Then came the dreadful second half which takes place in a Nazi death camp. Sure there is some extremely dark humor in this last half but it reaked of "Shindler's List" and the conclusion is not exactly uplifting either. I believe the film would have been much better if it stuck to either the first half or the last throughout the entire film and not setting up something wonderful and than ending it with tragedy. That's the worst joke anyone could pull and I for one did not appreciate the film at all.
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