即使再黑暗無光的隧道時光裡
積極樂觀勇敢地活下去
終究會走出一線曙光....
I saw this movie long time ago, but whenever I heard the name of this movie, it reminds me that I really like and appreciate this great movie. It not only told the story of the concentration camp, the Jew's' stories, but, most of all, the positive thinking of Guido, we should give ourselves a lot of reflection from this movie. Suddenly I also think of Forest Gump's quote : "Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get".
There is something we cannot change, but we can change our attitude!! For the life is beautiful - La vita è bella
Below are the information of the movie: (Source :Wikipedia)
The first half of the movie is a whimsical, romantic comedy and often slapstick. Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), a young Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo where he plans to set up a bookstore, taking a job in the interim as a waiter. He lives with his uncle Eliseo. Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances Dora (Italian, but not Jewish, and portrayed by Benigni's actual wife Nicoletta Braschi), whom he steals—at her engagement—from her rude and loud fiancé. Several years pass in which Guido and Dora have a son, Joshua (Giorgio Cantarini). In the film, Joshua is around four and a half years old, however both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Joshua.
In the second half, Guido, Uncle Eliseo and Joshua are taken to a concentration camp on Joshua's birthday. Dora demands to join her family and is permitted to do so. When Dora boards the train she is the only one wearing red, as everyone else is wearing dark coloured clothes. Guido hides Joshua from the Nazi guards and sneaks him food. Uncle Eliseo is gassed to death, though the others do not know.
In an attempt to keep up Joshua's spirits, Guido convinces Joshua that the camp is just a game, in which the first person to get 1,000 points wins a tank. He tells Joshua that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother or complains that he is hungry, he will lose points, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn 1,000 points. To further prove that the camp is a game he pretends to translate the guard's instructions.
Guido convinces Joshua that the camp guards are mean because they want the tank for themselves and that all the other children are hiding in order to win the game. He puts off every attempt of Joshua ending the game and returning home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank. Despite being surrounded by rampant death and people and all their sicknesses, Joshua does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.
Guido maintains this story right until the end, when—in the chaos caused by the American advance—he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final test before the tank is his.
After trying to find Dora, Guido is caught, taken away and shot by a Nazi guard, but not before making his son laugh one last time by imitating the Nazi guard as if the two of them are marching around the camp together. Joshua manages to survive and thinks he has won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the camp. He is reunited with his mother, not knowing that his father has died. Years later, he realizes the sacrifice his father made for him gave him the chance to live.
電影內容敘述二次大戰時期，德國將猶太人送往集中營，對猶太人管制、虐待、屠殺的故事。故事並沒有以血腥的畫面呈現德國納粹的殘暴，而是以喜劇的方式讓觀眾領悟生命的真諦。
《美麗人生》（義大利語：La vita è bella，意為「人生是美好」），1997年義大利電影，由導演羅貝托·貝尼尼自編自演，榮獲奧斯卡最佳外語片頭銜及多個國際大奬。電影講述義大利一對猶太父子被送進納粹集中營，父親Guido Orefice（導演羅貝托·貝尼尼飾）不忍年僅五歲的兒子飽受驚恐，利用自己豐富的想像力扯謊說他們正身處一個遊戲當中，必須接受集中營中種種規矩以換得分數贏取最後大奬。影片笑中有淚，將一個大時代小人物的故事，轉化為一個扣人心弦的悲喜劇。
一名義大利猶太裔青年基多（Guido），來到了義大利的Arezzo。基多是一名幽默風趣而吸引人的青年，他愛上了一名教師朵拉（Dora），基多使用各種方式希望追到朵拉，而朵拉則是已經有了婚約，不過基多仍是在朵拉的生活中添加許多驚奇，朵拉也漸漸愛上基多，基多更是在朵拉的訂婚宴上搶婚。兩人多年之後有了第一個兒子－約書亞（Joshua），基多也開了他夢寐以求的書店，只是基多夢寐以求的日子沒有持續太久，一切夢想在一家人送往納粹集中營後幻滅。
天性幽默的基多不願毀了兒子的天真無邪，由於兩人都有猶太人的血統，兩人被送往了集中營，朵拉則是因為並沒有猶太血統而被送走。基多故意編故事遊戲來騙約書亞，只要誰先能得到1000分就能得到一部真的坦克，使得約書亞不但適應集中營的生活，更逃過了被送去毒氣室毒死的命運。基多也要讓朵拉知道兩人還活著，讓朵拉能夠有活下去的希望。在德軍投降的前一晚，基多為了不讓兒子受害，再度編遊戲讓兒子躲到箱子當中，慢慢等待美軍的到來，約書亞照做了，但是基多在尋找朵拉時卻被德軍發現了，在被處死之前基多仍是要讓孩子以為這一切是個遊戲，基多最後則是死在納粹守衛的亂槍之下，翌日，美軍抵達，約書亞按照與爸爸的約定從箱子中出來，他見到了美軍的坦克，認為自己贏得了遊戲，最後約書亞也與母親重逢。
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