Life is Beautiful

   human spirit: love

Life is beautiful is a film directed by Roberto Benigni, which is a story about Jewish Italian in the WWII era. The film contains both happy and sad moods, which are developed by the charismatic protagonist, Guido. Guido appears to be humorous and cheerful guy, who remains his great human spirit even in the crucial situations. In the film, since Guido is Roman Jew, he and his family are sent to Nazi concentration camp. In the camp, Guido often takes risks for his son, Josue. Sensing that his son might be scared in such place, Guido lies to his son that they are playing a game: whoever gets 1,000 points gains a tank. He even pretends that he can translate German; he randomly speaks in front of the people just to make his son to trust him. Throughout this event, one can see his great human spirit: courage. He takes risk only for his son without any hesitation. He shall know that he would be killed, however, he only concerns about his son but nothing else. Also, he remains spirit of his bright humanity even though he’s in extremely bad situation. I believe the reason or origin of his bright human spirit is existence of family, because family is the most important that gives him reason to survive. Later in the film, Guido takes risk again, this time for his wife, Dora. Willing to give her a relief, Guido courageously move out of the camp and daringly uses the speaker to mention that he and Josue are doing well. He knows that he must be killed if he gets caught. However, since concern for his beloved is way stronger than that of himself, Guido exhibits his human spirit in order to give his wife a hope in such cruel place. Guido, until the last moment of his life, remains his bright spirit of humanity; he makes his son stay in a narrow space by saying that they are playing hide and seek. Also, he dresses up with women’s cloth and goes to women’s camp in order to find Dora. Unfortunately, he dies. However, his death was more valuable than anything else in the world, which saved other family members of his with his human spirit: great courage, bright personality, and love for family.

bibliography

http://www.lifeinitaly.com/italian-movies/roberto-benigni.asp
 -provided explanation of Roberto Begnini
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/
 -provided background information of the film
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi%20Germany.htm
 -provided information of Nazi Germany and Nazi concentration camp