I watched it the other night and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this great movie and what they thought about it?
2006-10-17 04:57:29 · 115 answers · asked by shewz27 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I have watched it many times now. It is a wonderful movie. I didn't watch it until after it won all the academy awards. Usually I am disappointed when I do but not this time. To love your child so much that you play an elaborate game and tell him he must play along or lose and be sent home is amazing. l liked the movie better with the English voice over because in Italian you have to read all the lines at the bottom and I got distracted from the movie.
2006-10-17 05:12:16 · answer #1 · answered by jelly-bean 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I watched it quite recently, it really is beautiful isn't it? I think it's very clever, the way it starts of being a romance between two very likable people and is apparently from the man's point of view.
The way it suddenly switches to the horrors of Auschwitz, so far into the film, invokes the shock that the poor people in that situation must have felt when the vague rumors they had heard turned into terrible reality. I especially liked the end, when we have realized the little boy is telling the story, when he says "That is the SACRIFICE he made for me." ie: it was all the harder for him because he couldn't cry or be angry or upset but constantly kept up a cheerful facade to help his son survive.
A very moving and original film, I'm glad you liked it too.
EDIT: I'd also like to add that it showed that the Nazi's may have been able to murder people but they couldn't stop them from being human so they lost even before the war was decided. Hooray for our team!
2006-10-17 08:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've watched the film more than three times and I think I will watch it again some day. I like the film a lot as it is a comedy with which I both laugh and cry. Each time when the film is over, I fell I love the life more, and the film has inspired me the strength to overcome any difficulties in my life and I learn how to make my life beautiful even in the worst situations.
2006-10-17 05:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by blue_sea 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen "Life is Beautiful" about 4 times and I love it! Watching it with the subtitles is actually better than seeing it with the English dubbed over. Roberto Benini is a genius! When he won the Oscar for the movie, he was so ecstatic! The movie is great and I highly recommend it. It's in my top 10 favorite movies.
2006-10-17 05:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by YAH IS GOD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was wonderful, very touching and extremely sad. I've seen it a few times but it is so sad I can't watch it more than once every few months or so. There was an American remake of it, and Robin Williams was great, but it didn't have quite the poignancy the Italian film does. Then again, you have to remember that the Italians lived it, so it was close to their hearts.
2006-10-17 05:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by dreamcatweaver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an awesome movie about courage and sacrifice. The bond ,not only between mother and child, but father and son is incredible.
When they arrive, how the dad makes the whole thing a game just so his little boy wasn't scared showed true courage.
The end still makes me ball like a little baby.
And the fact that his wife put HERSELF in those camps, just so she could find her family shows the greatest sacrifice.
Yes that was an AWESOME movie, and still is one of my favorites,
I'm glad you could see it. The message is tremendous.
I don't feel inclined to like it JUST because it touches on a serious note,
I'm not really fond of Schindler's List, and that's about the same sh*t.
If you feel you HAVE to like it, along with war movies, then that's your OWN guilty conscience plaguing at you. No one said you HAVE to like this movie just because this really happened.
It's all about preferance. I hate war movies, so I just don't watch them, and my dad, a vietnam vet, never had bashed me for being unpatriotic. The people saying that Sh*t are just drama queens/kings
2006-10-17 05:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great movie, deep with out beating you over the head with how bad things sucked
a real good peace of work by some one my wife called the Italian Jerry Lewis, and he was also great in a American movie call Down by Law
2006-10-17 05:26:00 · answer #7 · answered by bkbarile 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hii, ive seen da movie,
though i was not that inclined 2 see it (foreign film, but gave it a shot.
Its a intense movie, the comedy timing in the movie is good.
But dont expect the movie to be funny,
Its really intense,
I would give the movie 8 on 10.
2006-10-17 05:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by XxXpLoSiVe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really a tragic movie. The fact that the little boy had no idea what was going on... thinking that it was all a game. And then at the end... when he sees the American tank, the boy thinks that it's the prize that his father promised for being silent and hiding.
Apart from this, it's a heart-rending tale of one man's resolve not to give up in the face of adversity.
2006-10-17 05:34:53 · answer #9 · answered by hr26w8329 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It won a few oscars that year if I remember correctly.
Yes, I saw it in the theater and for a foriegn film, the acting so superb that I, for much of the film forgot it was in Italian. (no I don't speak Italian, but I am first generation born in America from my mother's Polish family)
2006-10-17 05:22:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋