The film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni illustrates how the worst situation can be made into the best of a situation with humor. The film is centered around the Holocaust in the late 1930s in Arezzo, Italy narrating the life of a Jewish man and poet, Guido Orefice, who is trying to win over an Italian schoolteacher who is set to marry another man, Dora. Guido’s sense of humor gets him out of a lot of trouble, like intentionally giving a speech to a group of children at her school and saying he is someone he is not, saying he can translate German in the concentration camp just to make the whole experience a “game” for Joshua, and hardly putting his foot down to Joshua when he didn’t want to shower but would make jokes to Dora
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Some of my friends come to me when they are going through rough times, and despite all the negative things going on I like to look at the bright side of the situation, like Guido and make a joke out of it to make them feel better. For instance, two summers ago my friend broke up with her boyfriend because he was going to college and she was very upset about it. I went over to her house with a gallon of icecream and movies, we talked about it, and after she was done telling me what happened I told her, “At least you don’t have to deal with his smelly, gross car anymore.” We had a good laugh out of it. Her situation was not something awful like the Holocaust, but it was something that upset her, just like the camp would’ve upset Joshua, so making a joke out of the bad situation makes people feel better. Another sense of humor that I have is during awkward situations. Sometimes when my friends get in fights, or if I have a fight with them, after it’s all over I make a joke out of the fight we just had and everyone laughs and gets over it. Humor is a characteristic of mine if I didn’t have, I wouldn’t be me. Life is Beautiful teaches a valuable lesson, even if the circumstances are awful the best of the situation has to be made to get through it. Guido has no problem turning the Holocaust into a game for his son, or stealing a man’s woman, and even using his humor to be funny and to make life more beautiful, even if his ending is not
Some of my friends come to me when they are going through rough times, and despite all the negative things going on I like to look at the bright side of the situation, like Guido and make a joke out of it to make them feel better. For instance, two summers ago my friend broke up with her boyfriend because he was going to college and she was very upset about it. I went over to her house with a gallon of icecream and movies, we talked about it, and after she was done telling me what happened I told her, “At least you don’t have to deal with his smelly, gross car anymore.” We had a good laugh out of it. Her situation was not something awful like the Holocaust, but it was something that upset her, just like the camp would’ve upset Joshua, so making a joke out of the bad situation makes people feel better. Another sense of humor that I have is during awkward situations. Sometimes when my friends get in fights, or if I have a fight with them, after it’s all over I make a joke out of the fight we just had and everyone laughs and gets over it. Humor is a characteristic of mine if I didn’t have, I wouldn’t be me. Life is Beautiful teaches a valuable lesson, even if the circumstances are awful the best of the situation has to be made to get through it. Guido has no problem turning the Holocaust into a game for his son, or stealing a man’s woman, and even using his humor to be funny and to make life more beautiful, even if his ending is not