This is the sentiment shown in the movie Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella), directed and starred in by Roberto Benigni. The first half of the film is an enchanting look at Guido's courtship of Dora in 1939 Italy. At the very start, we already see how comic and funny Guido, a fast talking, life-embracing waiter-to-be, is. He meets the love of his life Dora when she literally falls out of the sky into his arms. Making it appear coincidental, Guido manufactures a series of meetings with Dora, where he gets to amaze, dazzle and win her with his wit and magic. Life appears to be going fairly well for Guido even though Mussolini has just signed a pact with Hitler to implement his Nazi policies with regards to Jews. Fast forward years later and they have a son named Giosué. However, the world has changed drastically too. It's almost the end of World War II, but that makes the position of J

Guido's gamble, in this movie, pays off – for his son, at least. The ending may have brought tears to my eyes if only I weren’t in a room full of other people. Tears of joy or sadness, that I wouldn’t really know. Maybe a mixture of both? For Life is Beautiful was truly, a beautiful, funny sad movie.

ewish-Italians all the more precipitous. This is where things shift and get serious. The story becomes about a father trying to hide from his son the ugly truth of bigotry in the world. Once, his son notices that there are signs on many doors in the town stating “No Jews or Dogs allowed,” Guido simply replies that the store-owners just wanted to do those things. If he wants, they, too, will put up a sign stating “No Spiders or Visigoths allowed”. He never tells the horrible truth to Giosué, even when the Germans come to take them away to a concentration camp. Guido treats the whole exercise as a joke. He explains to his son that they've just b

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