Life is beautiful is a film about a man named Guido Orefice, his wife Dora, his son Giosuè, and Guido’s uncle Eliseo. His family is sent to a concentration camp. Guido uses his humor to hide the horror of the camp by playing a game with his son. Critics of the film say that the film is not showing the full picture of the holocaust. Proponents of the film said that film is portraying the Holocaust, this way to have a broader audience. Roberto Benigni’s use of comedy is effective in portraying the Holocaust, while other work from writers about about the Holocaust are grim, Benigni is about comedy. The main character Guido uses humor to lighten situation that the audience knows is serious. The director/actor Roberto Benigni uses the character
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Critics have said the Roberto Benigni is not effective at portraying the Holocaust, that he is lessening the effect of the holocaust. Roberto Benigni uses this to make the holocaust survivors as human beings instead of victims. Humor is used throughout the story, but when Guido encounters the bodies the film. He is horrified, just like the audience who were expecting that. The audience and Guido knew the killing was there, but was never shown, because Guido was shielding the holocaust from his son and from himself. There is more evidence that showed killing was there, when workers were not coming back after there “check up.” Guido uses his riddling skills to save himself from being killed due to the fact that he the doctor, when he was waiter in his uncle’s restaurant. Critics might say that Benigni did not effectively portray the concentration camp. Critics might use “Night” by Elie Wiesel to criticize the movie’s lack of smell. In Night, when Wiesel is arriving to the concentration camp Wiesel writes that he could smell burning flesh. Wiesel writes how guards would randoming beat prisoners because of boredom or hatred. In the film, prisoners were not seen to abused to extent that Wiesel writes about. However, Critics failed to realize that this is a fable based on Wiesel father’s time in a concentration camp. Benigni co-writer Vincenzo …show more content…
Art Spiegelman and Roberto Benigni fathers were both Holocaust survivors and both inspired their sons to create works that they seem fit to tell their story about the Holocaust. Spiegelman decided to tell the story by graphic novels, while Benigni decide to a make film. Spiegelman said during an interview,“ there was different values and experiences, but what was necessary for me was to learn to empathize what he gone through to understand what he gone through and what it was. I grow up with shards of information. I knew there was such a thing called Hitler, WW2, and concentration camps.Somehow my parents were in them and they had numbers on them. My father had numbers on him and woke up screaming often.” In the graphic novel Spiegelman humanize his father by writing that his father was stingy that he was mean at times. His father was a businessman, always looking for a way to better his situation. While Guido was not. Guido was a clown, he wanted to make people laugh. While, Giosue in the story idolizes his father. While, in the graphic novel, when Spiegelman is told by his father that he burned his mother diaries, he calls him a murder In the book and the movie that both get have similar in despair, but hopes are brought by a man in the concentration in
Critics have said the Roberto Benigni is not effective at portraying the Holocaust, that he is lessening the effect of the holocaust. Roberto Benigni uses this to make the holocaust survivors as human beings instead of victims. Humor is used throughout the story, but when Guido encounters the bodies the film. He is horrified, just like the audience who were expecting that. The audience and Guido knew the killing was there, but was never shown, because Guido was shielding the holocaust from his son and from himself. There is more evidence that showed killing was there, when workers were not coming back after there “check up.” Guido uses his riddling skills to save himself from being killed due to the fact that he the doctor, when he was waiter in his uncle’s restaurant. Critics might say that Benigni did not effectively portray the concentration camp. Critics might use “Night” by Elie Wiesel to criticize the movie’s lack of smell. In Night, when Wiesel is arriving to the concentration camp Wiesel writes that he could smell burning flesh. Wiesel writes how guards would randoming beat prisoners because of boredom or hatred. In the film, prisoners were not seen to abused to extent that Wiesel writes about. However, Critics failed to realize that this is a fable based on Wiesel father’s time in a concentration camp. Benigni co-writer Vincenzo …show more content…
Art Spiegelman and Roberto Benigni fathers were both Holocaust survivors and both inspired their sons to create works that they seem fit to tell their story about the Holocaust. Spiegelman decided to tell the story by graphic novels, while Benigni decide to a make film. Spiegelman said during an interview,“ there was different values and experiences, but what was necessary for me was to learn to empathize what he gone through to understand what he gone through and what it was. I grow up with shards of information. I knew there was such a thing called Hitler, WW2, and concentration camps.Somehow my parents were in them and they had numbers on them. My father had numbers on him and woke up screaming often.” In the graphic novel Spiegelman humanize his father by writing that his father was stingy that he was mean at times. His father was a businessman, always looking for a way to better his situation. While Guido was not. Guido was a clown, he wanted to make people laugh. While, Giosue in the story idolizes his father. While, in the graphic novel, when Spiegelman is told by his father that he burned his mother diaries, he calls him a murder In the book and the movie that both get have similar in despair, but hopes are brought by a man in the concentration in