Set in Italy in 1939, amid a climate of growing anti-Semitism and fascism in the town of Arezzo, a city south of Florence, Tuscany, in 1939 (M. Aste, 11). Guido is an enchanting Jewish waiter with a fantastic imagination. Guido instantly falls for Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful schoolteacher from a prominent family who's inconveniently engaged to a powerful fascist town clerk. Guido becomes undeclared rival with Dora's fiance. Also at the beginning of this film Guido makes friends with a German doctor (Horst Buchholz) who is a regular guest at the hotel and shares his love of riddles.

In this first half of the film, magic gives Guido a chance to win Dora's. In town, Guido

While on his ride home on the real tank, Giosue is happy that he won the game but not as happy when he sees his Mother. The tank operator stops the tank when he hears Giosue calling for his mother. The tank stops and, like a fairy tale ending, Giosue not only wins the game but also reunites with his mother. Although Guido dies at the end of the film, he has made something so horrific for a five-year-old into something that is beautiful and that is trust and love.

I think that the film actually softens the Holocaust slightly, to make the humor possible at all. In a real death camp there would be no role for Guido. But "Life is Beautiful" is not about Nazis and Fascists, but about the human spirit. It is about rescuing whatever is good and hopeful from the wreckage of dreams. It is about the hope for the future and the necessary human conviction, or delusion, that thing will be better for our children than they are right now (R. Ebert).

Now Guido, who has always constructed marvelous and imaginative stories for Giosue, comes up with a doozy: that the horrors surrounding them are actually part of a complex game, and if they're resilient and resourceful, they can "win"(Donadoni, 1).

survives by quick improvisation. Guido by the fantastic manipulation of carefully planned coincidences, he makes it appear that he is fated to replace the dour Fascist in Dora's life. Mistaken for a school inspector, Guido invests a quick lecture on Italian superiority, demonstrating the excellence of his big ears and superb navel to impress Dora.

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