I chose both movies because of the different views they portrayed of the Holocaust. It seems that in both movies, survival and hope are the two strongest characteristics of the Jewish people. Each movie depicts this in a different way.

Robert Benigni portrays the Nazi concentration camp as a game with his son in order to shelter him from the cruel aspects of the camp, where as in the Escape from Sobibor, the main goal is to escape the cruelty of the camp.

Life is Beautiful is a fictional movie based on the surrounding facts of the Holocaust. Escape from Sobibor is a true story written by a survivor himself. In Life is Beautiful, the most meaningful aspects of the movie were the conversations Benigni had with his son. It shows how far the father would go to protect his son and the love he had for him. It allowed you to feel the compassion of the situation d

In Life is Beautiful the story was fictional but was based during a true period of time. The imagery of the Holocaust, the concentration camp and the fear instilled by the situations of the camp all added to the reality of the times. Robert Benigni took a different approach than Rashke. There was a perceived understanding that the audience would already have an understanding of what was going on and the reality of the camps. The message was received with humour and at other times with sadness. The movie first brought about an understanding of the comedic love story, the family and the tragedy that followed because of the circumstances. The media was important because it delivered a message that was hard to accept. It hurts to see a family so happy get torn apart. There is an element of realism here as well with the awareness that this did happen to many families during the time of the Holocaust. I believe this movie could have been approached with a little more sensitivity towards the tragedy of the Jewish people. I don't know if this movie captured the magnitude of what happened in reality but the humour allowed you to see the movie without feeling the horror of the traditional imagery of massacres.

I might improve the film Life is Beautiful by making it a little more serious with more factual information but still keeping the humour. In Escape from Sobibor it seemed that the free time shown in the movie by the prisoners was unrealistic. This may have been factual but it didn't seem to flow with the film. I might take this part out and show more meaningful relationships and more scenes like that of those in Shindlers List. I would recommend both films because they gave such different and unique ways of portraying concentration camps and the life and times while there. It brings awareness of the tragedy to the forefront and these movies, fictional or fact, does not allow the tragedy to die.

These films gave me two different perspectives of the Holocaust. It gave me one from a paternal sensitive view and one from a victim's point of view. This would give someone compassion for what the Jewish people went through. It also tau

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