Life is Beautiful
(1997/1998)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Hollywood
Jesus visual review.
-
Movie Parables
review.
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"How Beautiful
Is Life Really?" Dan Buck, TheFilmForum:
Christian Conversation about the Movies.
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Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health -
Spiritual Practices for Human Being.
- Themes
- Father Figure
- Guido as loving,
humorous, encouraging father figure who sacrifices self for son. (See review at Hollywood Jesus.)
- Female Christ Figures
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The mother, who is from a prominent
Italian family, learns that her Jewish husband and son have been
taken away by German soldiers. She goes to the train station
and tries to convince the soldiers that a mistake has been made.
When an officer insists that she doesn't belong there, she demands
to be put on the train with the others. Though without
"guilt" (she is not Jewish), she chooses to identify
herself with those who have been condemned, giving up her own
life. The ending represents a resurrection, as she survives
in the camp and is reunited with her son. (submitted by FUMC,
Natchitoches, LA)
- Hope
- Guido smiling in the rain at
the concentration camp. (See review
at Hollywood Jesus.)
- Holocaust
- Guido attempts to save
his wife and son
- Love
- Guido as embodiment of love
for family. (See review at
Hollywood Jesus.)
- Sacrifice
- Guido sacrifices self
for his son. (See review
at Hollywood Jesus.)
- Suffering of the Innocent
- War
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