Watch the movie " Beautiful Life " again. This is a simple story. Like a fairy tale, there is sorrow in the story, and like a fairy tale, there is surprise and joy in the story. At the same time, I understand that behind the lies is not only the deep fatherly love, but also the best gift left by my father.
The best gift is not that my father can go home by sitting in a real tank, but that my father has left a beautiful inheritance.
1. The beautiful life in the darkest life
WWII , the Nazis persecuted Jewish everywhere, and Guido father and son who have Jewish ancestry were also arrested into concentration camps.
On Joshua's 5th birthday, Joshua and his father were taken to the truck heading to the concentration camp.
In the concentration camp, Guido told Joshua that they were playing a very exciting game. They were players. As long as the child who won 1,000 points, he could get a real tank. If he did not follow the rules, he would be deducted.
Nazi officers talk about the discipline of concentration camps. Guido is afraid that lies will be exposed. Even if he knows nothing about German , he still translates the Nazi threat into the rules of the game:
The game is about to begin, the first prize is the tank... Every day the loudspeaker will announce who will lead... The following three situations will lose all scores: 1. Cry; 2. Look for mother; 3. Have to eat snacks when you are hungry.
Joshua believed that he endured hunger, loneliness and fear and began a life-and-death game.
The life of the concentration camp is like years. Guido works hard to carry iron tools in extremely high temperature environments. If he fails to complete the task, he will die.
After a day, Guido couldn't stand firmly, but after seeing his son, he would still change his face quickly. He smiled and picked up his son to calculate how many points he earned today: "We are ranked first now, and we have a lot of hope to win the tank!"
This beautiful life that Guido used lies to wove his son through the darkest years in human history and grew hope buds in desperate situations.
Even if you can’t eat enough, sleep well, or wear warmly, Joshua still has a complete childhood in the dark concentration camp.
The purgatory on earth in the eyes of adults has become Joshua's adventure amusement park. At the end of the story, the Nazis were on the verge of defeat and decided to kill all the Jews in the concentration camp before retreating.
Guido secretly hid his son in the iron box and told him: We have accumulated 940 points, and we are only 60 points away to win! You must not come out.
But Guido himself was discovered by a Nazi officer on the way to find his wife and faced shooting.
At the last moment of life, Guido kicked a funny stance, smiled on his face, and walked towards death with his head held high and his chest held high.
Because he knew that his son hiding in the iron box was looking at him at this moment.
Gunshots sounded, Guido's life passed away, but his enthusiasm and optimism for life were forever left to his son.
Maybe life is optimism under cruel reality.
Guido's life was short, but he was like a night star in the dark, illuminating the life of his son Joshua.
2. The heart is as bright as the sun. Where is there no beauty
The real prototype of "Beautiful Life" is the director of this movie Roberto Benini , he is Joshua in the movie. After the movie
was finished, many people internationally, especially Jews, criticized Bernini, saying that he was using this dramatic technique and exaggerated technique to beautify this history, and to make such a painful thing into such an absurd game. You are betrayal of this history.
In fact, many people don’t know that the movie “Beautiful Life” filmed by Bernini was written based on his father and his life experience in the concentration camp. This is a real story.
If you haven't watched the movie "Beautiful Life", it's hard to imagine how a comedy can be performed in a place like Avici Hell in the German Nazi concentration camp in World War II, but he did it.
In the concentration camp where human nature is destroyed, the game lies made up for his son in the name of fatherly love make this place covered by the clouds of death full of sunshine. He is afraid that his son will be hurt and made many funny things for love, which brings us a lot of touch in the unscrupulous laughter.
If you are in a concentration camp where you are facing life and death at any time, you can regard these sufferings as a game. You can change your perspective so that a child can survive and survive optimistically. I think there is nothing in this world that cannot change your perspective. Therefore, learn to change our perspective and use the method of reducing reflection to re-look on the difficulties we face.
Movie is not a tragedy. Guido's funny appearance can be seen that the whole movie is full of a comedy atmosphere, but it is by no means a vulgar comedy without depth. The movie did not indulge the audience in shallow touch.
The real meaning of this movie is to tell us: People who are truly optimistic and love life have nightmares that are temporary, and believe that a beautiful life is forever. Everyone’s life is beautiful and colorful, and the heart is as bright as the sun, and there is no beauty everywhere!