Life is Beautiful Blog

3/2/2016

One connection between Life is Beautiful and Night is the link between the father and son. The father and son bond in both the movie and the book play a really important role in the story. Guido protected his son by telling it was all a game and that all worked even after he unfortunately died, and then resulted with Joshua reuniting with his mother Dora. In Night, Elie clinged to his father as if he was a safety rope. Elie's father is a major reason he kept going. The fathers played a major role and paid a major sacrifice to keep their family safe. 

I've noticed a lot of things different between the book and the movie. First off, the families are completely different when it came to the outcomes. In Life is Beautiful Joshua was able to reunite with his mother Dora. Eliezer's family died, and after his father passed he had really no one able to turn to. The second is the role of the father. Guido in Life is Beautiful did all he could to protect his son from the dangers of the Holocaust. Night on the other hand, Eliezer did whatever he could to protect his father from the dangers of the Holocaust.

I felt the mood was entirely different between Life is Beautiful and Night. Throughout the whole first half of Life is Beautiful is positive because he met the person he loved, and is overall living a good life until the Nazis take over. When they get to the camp the mood is close to half as dark as Night because of Guido convincing Joshua that it is all a game. Joshua remains positive, throughout the whole thing because of Guido, making it not as dark as someone would expect it to be. When it comes to the mood, Night has a melancholy, darker mood and Life is Beautiful is has half of that darkness, give or take.

In Life is Beautiful there is really good evidence that life is beautiful. A great example of this would be when they were in the camp, Guido sneaked into where the speaker was and let Dora know that he was still thinking about her. That shows, that even when Guido has a great risk of getting caught and punished for that he still does it because she was one of the loved ones that was still with them. That was all he had for the remainder of his life. Another that comes to mind is when Dora got together with Guido. The main reason this shows that life is beautiful is that a person that working with Nazi Germany (possibly forced to) got married to Guido a Italian Jew, which not only shows that life is beautiful but also meant they had a lot of courage especially considering the time and place they were in. This is a great example of the "impossible" becoming something incredibly possible, which is why it makes life a beautiful thing.