What is the best feeling that you experience when watching drama? Is it the one that you feel when you figure out some new things to you? is it a sorrow brought by harsh reality? Or is it happiness coming out from the fact that it's life, it's colored and it's going on now? Is it humor, sarcasm that actually makes us stronger because of that kind of attitude? Well...for me all of those are not only acceptable but also key experiences while watching the drama. That’s why I prefer it to the other kind of movies.
The main thing that makes differs 'Life is beautiful' from every film you have ever seen, is that you can feel all the aspects of drama altogether. There are they key moments in the movies what I call 'the top'. The best scenes you may see, feel, hear. While watching top scenes you may feel some kind of ball in your throat that contains your guilt, love, hate, fear and heroism. Imagine that moment going on through the whole film. It's amazing how scenario is divided into two parts happiness and sorrow in 'reality' but both of them have to do a lot with each other.
Quite authoritative for me movie reviewer and political psychoanalyst (philosopher in fact xd) Zizek argues this movie is just a manifestation of the family myth one of the key grounds of the contemporary ideology. I would like to argue that. I mean you could say that about 2012, or 'the day after tomorrow' et.c. In these films the reunion of family is an opposite to the end of the world (or at least something to do before the end comes). While in this movie no one else than a family member, especially the son of the main character could make sense. It's a replacing strategy. You place some other people in "Armageddon" (for example the guy whom Bruce Willis’s character saves could be replaced by someone other than his daughter’s bf) and it still works. Therefore we don't see mother in the second half of the movie and the reunion does not happen in the normal way. It's just son seeing her mom.
Anyways, in this movie there is a lot of illusionary happiness. Just like the Todd Solondz’s movie 'happiness' where the illusion is emphasized and the one who watches it, see's how fake it is, so it is a 'left' movie. While 'life is beautiful' is more based on the notion of happiness itself.
Anti-fa sarcasm that the movie reviewed contains is the best one i'v ever seen. It's a non-agressive version of 'Inglorious Bastards'. It actually makes fun of Nazism but does not contradict it and it's really important. The problem is not a type of ideology but the ideology itself. There's a scene where the main character says: "everyone does whatever they want" It's actually a solution to the Nazis and the ideology, that's the rule of the game that others don't really know. It’s too tolerant to Nazism and the Ideology through the whole film in some way.
Sometimes the 'kindness' game in the movie becomes so real that you even lose control on reality. Amazing movie, proudly standing in my top 10 list and waiting for better movies to be replaced.
1 comments:
You're so into Zizek. I think I should read him. I can't disagree with him, this movie is definitely about family myth. And what I appreciate in this movie, you have mentioned it too, is that Benigni makes fun of Nazis and does not answer their aggression the way Tarantino did.
I can watch other movies about holocaust many times, but not this one, it is too intense for me even though sometimes I even believe that everything is just a game... isn't it really?
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