In the vast history of film, every year the world will produce countless film works, but in the end there are very few that can be released to the public, and those films that stand out and are constantly recalled and revisited by people day after year are like a big wave of sand in the history of film.
Every film is a work, but not every film can become a classic. Because "classic" is the result of comparison, it needs the approval of most people. So "classic cinema", like everything else in this world, is an "absolute" and "relative" community.
With 1.1 million people ratings of 9.6 and 70 awards worldwide, Beautiful Life is a legend.
Director: Roberto Bernini
Writers: Vincenzo Cherami / Roberto Bernini
Starring: Roberto Bernini / Nicoleta Blaski / Giorgio Cantarini / Giustino Durrano / Sergio Bini Bustrik / more...
Runtime: 116 minutes / 125 minutes
Rated 9.6 – 1105168 reviews
Before watching the movie, my friend told me not to be deceived by this name, it is a tragedy. So at the beginning, I was highly nervous, afraid that someone would die if I was not careful, but it was nothing when the movie was almost halfway through, not to mention that when I saw the hero Guido pursuing the heroine Dora, I even wondered if I was in the wrong movie.
Looked up the background of the movie, World War II, Nazis, Jews, concentration camps. Before watching "Schindler's List", the suppression of black and white made people cry wet a tissue, but the atmosphere of the comedy of "Beautiful Life" is really strange and confusing, the bright picture is clearly full of joy, elegant banquets, vibrant Italian countryside, humorous and lovely citizens.
But the final ending is really a cosmic atomic bomb, as if it was waiting for the audience at the end early, which caught people off guard.
Released in Italy in 1997, the film has a Douban score of 9.5, which is an important place in the history of world cinema, and has won 70 awards and 51 nominations worldwide. These include three awards at the 71st Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor and Best Original Score for Feature Film;
51st Cannes Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize; 42nd Italian Film Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and other 9 awards.
These awards are undoubtedly the greatest recognition of the film by authoritative film critics and fans. Many people often say that "Beautiful Life" is a member of the "Must See in Life" list, which shows that the film is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
There's a saying that goes like this: Everyone can find the answer in the movie. I think everyone can find warmth and emotion in this film.
Short comment on Douban: Even les Misérables, laugh a lot. The film begins with comedy and ends with tragedy. At the end of the movie, I couldn't believe the fact that the protagonist had left. How sad it would be if the son knew about the sacrifices his father had made.
Thinking of this, I can't help but shed tears, how I hope he has the aura of a protagonist, can return to the audience's vision, and once again use his exaggerated laughter and wisdom to say "good morning, princess".
A war film, why is it called "Beautiful Life"?
Bernini said the title comes from the words of Leon Trotsky, who, during his exile in Mexico, watched his wife in the garden write, no matter what, "Life is beautiful."
At the beginning of the film, Roberto Bernini names the tone of "A Beautiful Life": light and meaningful, or exhortation or satire or sad and happy. And he still chooses the definition of fables in traditional literature: to tell a simple and happy story to the child, so that he can realize the truth of sustenance in the future.
Like all fables, the beauty of fairy tales has to go through a thousand adversities before the prince and the princess end together.
In the initial stages of the pursuit, Dora did not care about Guido's bitter pursuit, but because Dora hated Rudolph, he often spent time with Guido, and Rudolph held an engagement party with Dora, and Guido naturally became the hero who helped Dora escape Rudolph's entanglement, and has since won her heart.
After Guido and Dora get married, soon good things are approaching, Guido Bookstore opens, and gives birth to a well-behaved and lovely son Joshua, and the family lives happily.
However, under the fascist regime, Quito and his son were forcibly sent to Jewish concentration camps. Dora saw that the house was in a mess, without her husband and son, and at the moment when the train was about to leave, Dora ran to the officer and asked to take her away.
In fact, Dora did not have to go at all, because she was not Jewish, did not have to go to concentration camps, did not have to be tortured and tortured. But with a fearless look in her eyes and a firm tone, she said to the officer: Let me get on that train, I will also go!
At that moment, I thought of Jack and Ruth of Titanic, "you jump, i jump", and that moment was like love.
From Miss Qianjin in a wealthy family, to an ordinary wife who lives an ordinary life, to a slave in a concentration camp, every step is a firm choice of Dora herself. A princess who fell into the mortal world, braver than anyone, Dora lost her external delicacy and elegance, but grew into an admirable warrior. She bravely pursued true love, married a husband who was very different from her own identity; and bravely joined the Jewish ranks at the moment of separation from her husband and children, without hesitation in every choice.
True love gave her infinite courage, and in the face of the most tempting conditions, she still firmly followed her inner voice, like a warrior.
He told his son that everything that happened in the camp was a necessary part of making a great game.
The goal of the game is to win 1 000 points. The winner will win a tank car. It was a real tank, not a toy tank like Schopenhauer's habit.
However, the rules of the game change frequently, including various "hide-and-seek" and "disguise", as well as requirements such as "silence".
Guido humorously explained the highly unusual fascist environment around his five-year-old son Schopenhauer.
Guido told his son that the pickets in the camp were not bad people. Their actions are just to win in the game.
The beautiful life movie also gives people a point of view, that is, no matter how life is like this, how bad life is, we must face life with a positive smile, do not let ourselves become negative because of the unsatisfactory life, to know that happy for a minute, sad for a minute, are over a minute, it is better to choose to make yourself happy every minute. In the face of his family being arrested in Nazi concentration camps and facing the imminent death, Quito did not have a negative concept and decadent approach to this, but actively faced the coming death, and even in the face of death, he also desperately protected his children and wives so that his children could have a happy life.