A Comparison Of World War II And Life Is Beautiful By Roberto Benigni

World War II and The Holocaust are only one of many topics found in literature. Reading or watching these stories is sometimes an eerie experience and other times it is a different kind, it all depends on how the author sets it up and how the viewer or reader perceives it. There are a few books and movies that are more common, like The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. A book that isn’t as commonly known, is Night by Elie Weisel. There is also a movie that is in Italian which maybe isn’t known very well is Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni. Many of my peers and I were able to experience both this memoir and movie. Every story that is about the Holocaust is different in some aspect. Both of these uncommon tales are mostly different but do actually …show more content…
He was able to do this by fabricating most of the story and giving a huge, and funny, background. He was good staying away from harsh subjects. When the child was brought into the movie and therefore into the concentration camp, the main character Guido made sure to keep his child’s innocence, which meant not telling him anything about where they were or making him believe the things he heard were not true. He even made up this game so the child thought that they were winning a real tank at the end of it and so that he would keep quiet and do what he was told and wouldn’t get him or his father killed. Unlike the book, it does show a bit of the women’s area of the concentration camp to keep up with the intertwined love story that got people connected to the characters. For example, it took a lot of hard work and dedication for Guido to get the girl to fall in love with him in the beginning and he always used the line, “Good Morning, Princess” which carried through to the time when they were separated into the camp and he snuck into a room when no guards were around and Guido and his son talked to the mother over the loudspeaker and he said his common line. You can tell that this movie was supposed to be light-hearted and make you feel something from the title, Life is Beautiful, as well. This shows the untruthfulness of the movie as well because during this time, life was not in fact beautiful and the horrors of World War II are not easy to tell as well as that it was not realistic that the boy survived in the concentration camp. The director wanted the viewer to feel emotionally attached throughout the movie and he did this very well with his incorporation of love, humor, and hiding the truth