2019 is nearing its end, looking back on this year, there are many word-of-mouth films emerging, which not only draws a satisfactory end to the upcoming 2019, but also makes fans full of expectations for the film market in 2020.
Today, What Pigo wants to recommend to you is an old movie, which is also the first must-see film in 2020 - "Beautiful Life".
"A Beautiful Life" is a treasure Italian film in the Douban film top6, which has won 70 awards such as the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The film premiered in Italy in 1997, after 23 years, the 4K restoration classic will be re-released on January 3, 2020 in the mainland.
Written and directed by Italian national treasure director Roberto Bernini, "Beautiful Life" tells a story about family and love, with ups and downs and touching heart.
The first half of the film tells the story of Guido, a Jewish young man played by Roberto Bernini, who meets Dora, a beautiful female teacher played by Nicoletta Brasky. The classic line in the film, "Good Morning, Princess", is the beginning and continuation of the love between Guido and Dora, guido's intelligence and fun and Dora's beauty and simplicity make the two people rub love fire, like a marshmallow love story.
The beautiful love bears fruit, Guido and Dora have their own child Joshua, and life is peaceful and beautiful. However, happy times were always short-lived, and on Joshua's birthday, father and son of Jewish descent were taken to concentration camps.
Guido weaves a warm and safe umbrella with lies, sheltering the innocent Joshua under the umbrella. In a truck bound for the camp, Joshua was confused about their upcoming destination, and on his son's birthday, he was reluctant to tell him the truth. To soothe his son's uneasiness, Guido told him, "This is the trip you've been looking forward to for a long time. "
When they arrived at the camp, in order not to let the children's young minds have the shadow of war, they lied that they were making a game that could earn points and get real tanks as a reward. Since then, the father and son have begun a life of earning a thousand points in the concentration camp.
Seeing the dark and crowded cell, Joshua was full of resistance, and he gently told his son that everyone was fighting for the first prize; Guido, who could not understand the foreign language, bravely raised his hand to do the translation, distorting the truth and translating the officer's words aloud, just hoping to see his son's innocent smile. He is protecting his son's innocence with one beautiful lie after another.
Joshua naively believed it was just a game and never seemed to realize the danger existed. Surviving because he did not like to take a bath, under the careful protection of his father, he has always dreamed of winning the game, seeing his mother, and getting tanks.
Even when Guido was shot, the naïve Joshua was still immersed in the joy of his father telling him that the game would be won, unaware of the pain of death and war. As he sat in the real tank, he looked at his mother and shouted, "We won." "Yes, the game is over, the game is won, and Joshua, as his father wished, did not live in the fear of war, but was still the happy and simple child.
Guido's death in the film is not shown in a bloody way. As he walked toward death, he was still walking in a funny way, blinking at his son. All this is he is telling his son not to be afraid, to face it optimistically.
The film ends with the oral narration of Joshua growing up, which makes people cry. "It was my experience, it was a sacrifice my father made, it was a gift from my father," he said.
It is such a film without personal heroism that makes the light of humanity shine even brighter. The ordinary father Guido defeated all enemies with his optimism, and built a fairytale beauty for Joshua with his lies, and in him we see the greatness of fatherly love.
The father did everything he could to create a happy "game" for his son, so that his son could still grow up happily under the haze of the Nazi concentration camps. The love between Guido and Dora in the film is enviable and yearning, but Guido's fatherly love for Joshua is even more touching.
As the beginning said: "This is a simple story, but it is not easy to say clearly, it is like a fable with sorrow and joy, and like a fable, it is incredible." In the face of the brutal Nazis, a father guarded his child's childhood with his life.
On January 3rd, "Beautiful Life" was re-released in the mainland, I believe that after you have seen it, you will understand the greatness of father's love!