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

Although the mood shift is surprising and extremely risky, it works, thanks to Benigni's beautiful characterization of Guido, the story's guiding force. Moreover, its

Some of the second half of this film does not work out logically. Would have Guido's numerous antics gone unnoticed or unpunished at the camp? The fact of the matter here is Benigni's particular skill and ability to pinpoint specific moments of encroaching horror, and the using sharp humor, lay bare the situation's inherent absurdity and in humanity (Donadoni, 1).

With in the camp no one wanted to be sent to the "showers." When sent to the showers you were examined by a doctor and sent to the gas chamber. In on scene Guido is sent to the showers but the German doctor is the one he used to waiter for. Guido tells the doctor that his son is here and hiding and some how the doctor is able to send him back to the barracks. You almost can see it in the doctor's eyes when he sees Guido, a good friend, in the shower line. That is the doctor feels bad for what he has been doing but now even worse because what he stands for has separated a loving family who only helped others.

The second half of this film is a tender and tragic treatise on the transcendence of a parent's thought and the power of man-made magic to reconstruct the world (Jardine, 2). In the final scenes of the film, when the war is ending, Guido dressed like a woman is franticly looking for Dora. While doing this Giosue in hiding is a metal box in a Courtyard within the camp and is told to wait until Guido comes back or when he can see and hear no one and they will win the game. Unfortunately Guido is found posing as a woman and is shot by a German soldier.

Several years pass, off screen. Dora and Guido are happily married with a five-year-old son Giosue (Giorgio Cantrini). In 1945, near the end of the war, the Jews in the town are rounded up by the Fascists and shipped by rail to a death camp. Guido and Giosue are loaded into a train, and Guido instinctively tries to turn it into a game to comfort his son. Guido makes a big show of being terrified that somehow they will miss the train and be left behind. Dora, not Jewish, would be spared by the Fascists, but insists on coming along to be

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