Life+Is+Beautiful

//Life Is Beautiful//, originally titled //La Vita è Bella,// is an Italian dramatic comedy film released in 1997 and directed by Roberto Benigni, who also plays the part of the protagonist of the story, Guido Orefice. The film soundtrack was composed by Nicola Piovani. //Life is Beautiful// obtained more than 50 awards, including three Academy Awards (Best Actor, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Drama Original Score).

The film's story takes place during the Second World War. It is about a Jewish Italian man called Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni) who arrives in a Tuscany's city with a friend. He goes there with a desire to have his own library. While he's trying to get this, he works with his uncle as a waiter. By chance, he meets a woman called Dora (Nicoletta Braschi). Immediately, Guido falls in love with her. But she's engaged with another man. Guido and Dora meet some more times and then she starts to love him too. Before getting married, Dora and her future husband hold a banquet. Guido is working in it as a waiter. Dora sees Guido and says him that she wants to go away with him, because she doesn't love her fiancé any more, he loves Guido now. So they leave the banquet together and Dora forgets her fiancé and the wedding. A few years later, Dora and Guido live happily with their little son Josué (Giorgio Cantarini). Unfortunately, one day, Guido, Josué and Guido's uncle are kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp. Dora isn't Jewish but she decides to go with them. Once there, Guido's uncle and Dora are separated from Guido and Josué. In order to make the stay of Josué in the concentration camp the best as possible and avoid his suffering, Guido tries to make Josué think that they're playing a game, with its rules and its reward, a tank. Finally, the war ends. The night before the nazi soldiers leave the concentration camp, Guido and Josué attempt to escape. Guido looks for Dora while Josué is hidden, but he can't find her. A soldier discovers him and kills him. At dawn, there aren't any soldiers. Josué gets out of his hideout with some other prisoners and an American tank comes to him, he has won the game. After that, Josué finds her mother, Dora.

//Life Is Beautiful// is a film that I have really liked because, in fact, it tells a sad story, with death and suffering, but the film is funny and beautiful, and that's because Guido, wonderfully played by Roberto Benigni, does everything he can to make his life and the lives of the people he love beautiful. He's full of hope, imagination, positivity and sense of humor. Another thing ot the film that I've liked very much is its soundtrack, which is very emotive. The only point that I don't like is the end of the story, because it seems as if Dora and Josué had fotgotten Guido's death. This is a very good film that I recommend to everyone, and you know, life can be beautiful if you want!

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