La Vita E Bella

lAira G. ManaloAugust 31, 2012 COM31Mr. Edgar Garnace Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) I believe that being free is a matter of choice. We are free because we want to be defined non by other plurality only when ourselves. We make choices together with the thought of making a choice for the good of everyone. We exist not for other lot to tie strings on our hands and feet and do the manipulation. I dont exactly know what to feel about this film. It was a good laugh and a painful amour for me at the same time.Guido (Roberto Benigni) is such an optimistic human being, a positive father to his son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini) and a loving husband to his wife Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), who he treated like a princess if I may ask to mention. As for me, being a soul who freaks out when things dont go adjust, I keep perfectly seen how Guido made life beautiful for his son and wife. It hurts me to see him hiding the truth from his son by reinventing the things that happens inside the concentration camp.In the midst of that threatening situation, Guido manipulated his world and made life beautiful for him and his family. I conceive of that is the very essence of the film, making life perfect for you, eventide if it re each(prenominal)y isnt for the entire world. It is serious that we find beauty even in the darkest and cruelest of places. Dora amazed me too. I will not forget how she volitionally set foot into that train containing all Jewish people. I can see how strong her hump is for her husband and son that she can give up her life just to be with them.I have seen her substitute from a spoiled girl who fell into Guidos arms and turned out into soul braver and stronger, someone who thinks not much of her own sake anymore. This is where I would now start relating it to Existentialism. The very core of this philosophy is that Existence precedes Essence. It emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent un iverse and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of ones own doings. It is just so ironic for me that a person like Guido is living in a world where freedom is the rarest of all terms.The Nazis have defined what living should mean for them, which I also think is very contradicting to the center mensurate of Existentialism, which is freedom. A person defines himself and what he wants to make of himself. No one could ever define him as a person but only what he wants him to be. The Jews in this movie let the Nazis define the world for them, though I know they are left with no other choice but to keep responding to what these people want them to do, because if not, they will cease to exist.This is what Sartre called Quietism. The poor Jews let the Nazis decide for them because they are afraid to die, to get hurt, even if being shot to cobblers last while fighting for freedom would be a better death than be degraded by people of other race, in my opinion. I have seen an authentic person in Guido. In his quiet ways he defined the world for himself. He fought for what he thinks is right and there he exercised his freedom.He tried to fight his way out of the hellish camp if not for himself but for his family, and this he thinks is right not for himself but also for those other people with him. Life is beautiful. It will be if you want it to be. When things are not going right for me, I know ranting wont make them all right. I know that I always have the choice. I would always immortalize Guido who has found beauty in the ugliest of places. Because the man who can accept all the barriers and restrictions in life and is not afraid of them is free.