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Rating: Many times I have wondered what poetry is, without ever being able to give myself an answer.
I imagine there are many possible definitions of poetry: for me, it is perhaps the art of expressing enormous things in an extremely simple way, so that even children can understand: the famous "Mattino" by Giuseppe Ungaretti ("M'illumino d'Immenso") is, in this sense, the manifesto.
Poetry can be anywhere and should be sought or expressed anywhere, in any way.
Behold, "Life is Beautiful" is poetry, pure and simple: how else to define a film that, accompanied by a goosebumps-inducing soundtrack, is at the same time a splendid hymn to Life, to Love, to that Meaning each of us seeks in our existence, to the moving defense of that Innocence that should never be lost, and a violent refusal of the devastation that humans too often inflict upon themselves?
An inspired Roberto Benigni says all this with a devastating power and simplicity... The kind that only children (of all ages) have and can express.
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By KimDealISsoHOT
A propaganda film of the American government, awarded by the American propaganda with the Oscars.
Sly Benigni, you wrote the script with Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, huh??
By Nero
"Life is Beautiful is his acme, the masterpiece of cinematic and artistic hypocrisy, where every trait of the script, every line, every whim is subordinated to begging for the viewer’s pity."
"Doing it the way Benigni did is an abomination. And Life is Beautiful is just that."
By Rax
This is not a masterpiece. The idea of the film, in itself, is splendid.
A moment of unheard anguish has become a mockery.
