Today I will share with you the movie " Beautiful Life " released in Italy in 1997. The movie has a Douban score of 9.6, and the starring role of the film, Roberto Benini, also became the first best actor in history to win an Oscar for a non-English character. This is a movie that was enough to make people cry when they saw it.
The film has two story lines, one is the love story of Guido and his wife Dora; the other is the story of Guido's father and son being sent to a concentration camp by the German army. Guido used his imagination to deceive his son Joshua and said that they were playing a game so that his son would not leave a shadow, remain innocent, and finally died tragically under the gun of the enemy.
The story takes place in Italy in 1939. Guido and his good friend Firucci were leaving for a small town. On the way, Guido met Dora who accidentally fell from the upper floor to help the residents remove beehive . Guido caught Dora below. Guido helped Dora suck bee venom . He developed a good impression of the beautiful girl in front of him. Dora gave Guido a few eggs to Guido to express his gratitude. After that, Guido continued to take his friends to the town.
When they arrived in the town, they lived together in Uncle Guido's house. Guido's dream was to open a bookstore in the town, but because he could not apply for his identity as a Jewish , he could only work as a waiter in a restaurant. On the way to riding a bicycle, he accidentally knocked down Dora. The two met again and he learned about the identity of Teacher Dora. By chance, he heard a supervisor in the restaurant going to give a speech, so he pretended to be supervisor and went to the school. In order to please Dora, he jumped onto the podium to perform a flamboyant and funny performance, shocking the school's principal and teachers. Later, the real supervisor came and Guido jumped out of the window and ran away.
When he was in school, Guido learned that Dora was going to the theater, so he went there together. Dora and his boyfriend watched the drama in the upper room, while Guido kept staring at Dora upstairs upstairs. After the drama ended, it rained heavily outside, and Dora mistakenly got into Guido's car. As a result, Guido couldn't drive, causing the car to break down. Dora was also wet all over. After the rain stopped, Guido's sincerity and kindness doubled Dora's favor for him, and Guido also boldly expressed his love for her to Dora.
Dora doesn't like her boyfriend Rudolph very much. One day Rudolph wished to hold his wedding with Dora, which happened to be in the restaurant served by Guido. Dora asked Guido to take her away, so Guido rode a horse into the restaurant and took Dora away with her coolly. After that, Guido and Dora finally achieved their goal, got together as they wished, and gave birth to a lovely son Joshua.
On the day of her son's fifth birthday, Dora went to pick up Joshua's grandmother back. When she got home, she found that the door was wide open and there was a mess inside. She realized that her husband and son were captured by the German army because of her Jewish identity. She had no Jewish ancestry and could not let go of her son and husband, and insisted on going to the concentration camp.
In the concentration camp, Guido deceived his son and they were playing a game, while the German army outside was the referee. They needed to accumulate a thousand points to get a real tank , and could take a tank home. The young Joshua believed Guido's words. Guido is also trying every day to report his safety with Dora.
When Germany was defeated in Italy, the German troops in the concentration camp destroyed the evidence overnight and prepared to evacuate. Guido hid his son and told him to wait until there was no one before coming out. They would win the final prize. He went to search for Dora. However, he was unfortunately discovered by the German army and was going to be taken to a gun to be executed by the German army. When he passed by his son's hiding place, he continued to act and showed great joy in front of Joshua. Finally, he was taken to a remote place by the German army. He could only hear a few gunshots, but he would never see Guido.
The next morning, all the German troops evacuated, and Joshua also walked out of the hiding place. At this time, a tank drove in front of him, and a US military cordially invited Joshua to get on the car. Joshua was very happy. On the way home, he also successfully met his mother Dora. The mother and son finally met, and Dora cried with joy.
The name of this movie is "Beautiful Life". What is a beautiful life? I think, maybe it is Guido's pursuit of the beauty of love, the beauty of "Hello! Princess!", the beauty of optimism in facing life, the beauty of lies that deceive Joshua, and the beauty of his indifferent face to death in the end.
Guido looks a little silly on the surface, but his optimistic and brave attitude towards life can always infect people around him. In the end, Guido fell to the gun of the enemy, but I believe that his life is beautiful, and his wife and son will always be proud of him. At the same time, this movie also allows us to see the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of war. Perhaps without war, the Guido family will live happily. We must call for peace and reject war! May people in the world not experience the separation of life and death brought about by war!
