Life is truly beautiful......

            “Life is Beautiful” is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama. The story introduced the main character, Guido, a young Italian Jewish man who leaves his old life and moving to the city. This movie strong showed that how personality and perspective of life can make a different. The movie showed how Guido’s optimistic personality helped him woo his wife and protect his son, Joshua.

            In the beginning of the movie, we can saw the characteristic of Guido as humorous, optimistic, and quick-witted. For example, after he saved Dora from falling down, he said that, “What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!” Also, there is a scene where Dora said that her heart might be able to open for someone if there is a key from heaven. Guido purposely asked for the lady living in a tower for the key because he knows that she will throw it down every time it is asked. This showed how his optimistic personality can make an impression. Finally he got married with Dora and had a son, Joshua.

            For the second half of the movie, we saw how Guido’s humorous and quick-witted personality helped to protect his family. The second half of the movie portrayed the timeline of World War II. Guido and his family were captured by Nazis soldiers and brought to concentration camp. Guido knew that how much negative impact the truth would be towards his young son, Joshua. Thus, from the moment they were being captured, Guido used his acting to make his son believed that they were going to fun and interesting playground where they can earn points to get a real tank as prize. For the safety of his son, he even picked up the courage to pretend to be a translator so that he could trick his son into believing his story. Another scene where we can see his quick-witted characteristic is when his son accidentally speaks Italian to a Nazis waiter, which makes him in danger of being killed (since all the children brought there were all being killed). Guido quickly pretended to teach other German kids to speak some Italian so that Joshua won’t get caught. His personality helped Joshua shaped his perspective about the concentration camp as a game place instead of the true scary place.

            From this movie, I can see that how a person’s personality can make an impact to others’ lives as Guido’s to Joshua. The even more powerful force that triggered personality is when the love ones are in danger.