Life is Beautiful felt like a movie with two parts. The first part introduced our characters and showed us their love story. The second half of the movie showed us their family had grown, but was taken away by the Germans. Guido tried to keep the truth from Joshua, to keep his innocence and youth alive. I believe it was a nicer way to approach the topic of the Holocaust. We got the gist of what the Jewish people were treated like at the camps, but weren’t shown the worst of it. We saw no matter what families could be torn apart, and that everyone was terrified to do something wrong. For example, the scene where Guido tells Joshua to not speak when the children were eating because he’d get caught, and Joshua accidentally speaks, Guido had to think quickly to save the situation. 

    This film was my favorite from this semester, and I would definitely recommend to others!


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