Sacrifice In Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful

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Roberto Benigni, the director of Life is Beautiful (1997), explores the sacrifice of people during war . Through the use of Foreshadowing, Mood, and Characterization, film audiences are challenged to Imagine the struggles of the those in the holocaust. During the movie there are quite of examples of Foreshadowing. One of the first examples of this during the movie was when the thugs raided the house. This raiding was one which was done in discrimination rather than for anything of value. The uncle calls them thugs because of this. This helps allude to how the story will take a darker turn later. The next example of the discrimination was the horse. Before the party in which the “Egg Guy” announced his wedding, the horse of the uncle was spray painted. They horse wrote “attention Jewish Horse” on the horse. Guido immediately writes it off as people doing it for some reason, but the uncle corrected him. They didn’t do it for a reason, they did it to do it. This highlighted the discrimination which …show more content…

During the movie he exemplifies these characteristics. For example during the date scene when he took his soon to be wife out, he observed many things. Because of this he was able to cause “mysterious” events to happen at his command. This cleverness was the only thing that allowed for him to protect his son and preserve his innocence. His cleverness was also the only thing which allowed him to escape temporarily his death. Earlier he attracted the attention of a doctor who fancied riddles. Because of their earlier connection the doctor allowed for guido to work as a server instead of face death. However unlike Guido imagined it was not because of a bond. The doctor simply respected Guido’s intelligence and wanted him to solve a riddle which plagued his sleep and sanity. In the movie Guido is executed and it goes to show how even the most incredible people were defeated by the camps in the

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