Historical Perception The 1997 Italian film, Life Is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, portrays the events of the Holocaust. Benigni’s film portrays the event in a different light than past Holocaust films. The film takes place during World War II, which was a difficult time for Europeans, especially for those who were Jewish. Jewish people during this time were put into concentration camps, where they were being rapidly executed. The film does not give the actual event itself justice. Six million fatalities occurred during World War II. The tragic events of the Holocaust need to be made known to the audience authentically, so that they can perceive it accurately. The director attempts to portray the Holocaust in another light rather
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Jewish people were then separated from the rest and left in concentration camps where they were labored or killed. The Nazis’ hatred drove the genocide of the Jewish population. Six million Jews were murdered during this agonizing period; Jewish men, women, children, elderly, all of them killed. Almost nobody was safe from the Nazis. At one point Italy was allied with Germany, but this did not necessarily mean that those who lived in Italy were safe, as “up to 750,000-of Italian soldiers were imprisoned in brutal internment camps. Now Italians were victims of the whole gamut of Nazi violence…the product of an apparent Italian immunity to racism built into the Italian ‘national character’” (Robert 19). Benigni’s film, Life Is Beautiful, depicts the discouraging time of the Holocaust through the perspective of a small Italian family.
The film describes the tragic events of World War II in a different manner than the traditional way of past Holocaust films. Remi Lanzoni asserts, “Guido 's entire rationale in the second segment of the storyline embellishes the circumstances of the Holocaust, evolving the nightmarish experience into a challenge his son can endure both …show more content…
Compared to other films that portray the hostile events of the Holocaust, Benigni does not properly portray the actual tragic events. The director is unable to illustrate the true devastating moments from the lives of the Jewish within his film Life Is Beautiful like other Holocaust films are able to. This leads the audience to believe that a film based on a historic event such as this film, is completely accurate. Sadly, the audience is feeding into the craze of the award-winning movie, this will result in a distortion in the historic knowledge of many individuals. It is best to watch films that support and represent all the events authentically so that the acquiring end of the audience is not
Jewish people were then separated from the rest and left in concentration camps where they were labored or killed. The Nazis’ hatred drove the genocide of the Jewish population. Six million Jews were murdered during this agonizing period; Jewish men, women, children, elderly, all of them killed. Almost nobody was safe from the Nazis. At one point Italy was allied with Germany, but this did not necessarily mean that those who lived in Italy were safe, as “up to 750,000-of Italian soldiers were imprisoned in brutal internment camps. Now Italians were victims of the whole gamut of Nazi violence…the product of an apparent Italian immunity to racism built into the Italian ‘national character’” (Robert 19). Benigni’s film, Life Is Beautiful, depicts the discouraging time of the Holocaust through the perspective of a small Italian family.
The film describes the tragic events of World War II in a different manner than the traditional way of past Holocaust films. Remi Lanzoni asserts, “Guido 's entire rationale in the second segment of the storyline embellishes the circumstances of the Holocaust, evolving the nightmarish experience into a challenge his son can endure both …show more content…
Compared to other films that portray the hostile events of the Holocaust, Benigni does not properly portray the actual tragic events. The director is unable to illustrate the true devastating moments from the lives of the Jewish within his film Life Is Beautiful like other Holocaust films are able to. This leads the audience to believe that a film based on a historic event such as this film, is completely accurate. Sadly, the audience is feeding into the craze of the award-winning movie, this will result in a distortion in the historic knowledge of many individuals. It is best to watch films that support and represent all the events authentically so that the acquiring end of the audience is not