In the movie “Life is Beautiful” life goes on until one day when Dora returns to an empty house on Joshua's Birthday, and everything changes. Guido and Joshua with many other Jews, have been brought off to a Jewish concentration camp, but Dora requests to be brought along as not to be separated from her family. Guido wants to keep his son from being scarred by all of this, so he tells his son that it is all part of a game, and if he does what his father says, he will win a prize. ( even though he starts to not believe him )
But let's rewind the story for a minute Guido a very bright headed man whose brain is where his heart is and his heart is where his brain Is. This made the movie a very interesting turn of events, so I'd have to say the tone of this was to be very inspirational and grateful about life, and the mood is the same thing. From the countryside to the big town in Italy he has always dreamt about Dora and him being very successful in the real world to him and her life really was beautiful.
One part is when they finally kiss, because Guido has been waiting along time for it and she has too. It was absolutely perfect for them it was a dream come true then later it shows a time lapse of the future and it was those two with a young boy. Now this young boy is a son of a married couple ( Guido and Dora ). They finally had a bookstore and a successful family. This really shows life is beautiful because it shows what it means to be young and old in a bright perspective so it gave the beautiful feeling to the story.
In my ELA class we studied the holocaust for quite some time now. And this movie made me have plenty of connections with some of the research. During our research we found a group called the black shirts that ran Italy which took over Ethiopia. As in the movie the scene around the scene wee Guido and Dora kiss. When they announce the original leader of Ethiopia and the black shirts hail to the little decoration that is being brought out. The other one i connected is that when he was working in the camp he did the mining and carrying of metal to the fire. Which was one of the Laborite qualities the camps had. But the only off thing is that he was able to run around like that and there would be more guards. There was also a very sad discovery about the gas chambers Aka the showers. They still had the children and elders take the “showers” and killed them.
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