life is beautiful

I thought the film was pretty good. To be able to make a comedy and not really say anything thats offending is pretty tough, but this movie pulls it off. It was also emotional at parts.
The similarities between this and the boy in the striped pajamas, they are both fictional and give a theatrical sense of the holocaust. Life is beautiful was a comedy where the boy in striped pajamas is a drama. Life is beautiful is  more historically accurate i would think.
It didnt seem like the kid had to work from what i saw, so i would think it's not exactly what it was like but i dont know for sure.
This is a different type of black comedy than South park which pokes fun at the event. This is making a funny movie without offending people, saying negative things, or mocking anyone/anything.

the boy in the striped pajamas

From the little bit i saw of the movie, i really enjoyed it. Smole was my favorite character, so i was sad to hear he died. I was sad that the elderly doctor who peeled potatos and helped the boy with ther hurt knee, was killed. i  thought the movie had a grim, sad, but inspirational swing to it.
   The movie shows the childrens experience a tad but not to the full extent. It shows smole working and stuff as well as getting punished but somethings are unreal, like that the guard son could just walk up to the fence and talk to smole. It also barely shows Smoles everyday life.
   I wasn't a big fan of the family because they were nazis but i liked their kid. The dad was a concentration camp officer and the mom was just ignorant. I dont feel sorry for them because the father killed jews left and right so now he knows how it feels to have a child taken away from him like many others in the holocaust. i didnt see enough of the movie to tell you how id write the ending.
  I don't think this is the only movie id reccomend for the holocaust. Its a great film and very touching as well as gives some good takes on the holocaust, but i dont think it's historically accurate enough to be the one and only movie to go off of.

imaginary witness #2

Stephen Spielberg makes the point that to make a good holocaust film, you need to be graphic. i agree to a sense because it gets the point across about how bad it was. i think there are ways of doing it without graphicness but not to the same degree. you have to see things to belive it for some people.
Elie Wiesel says that we should not attempt to make films about the holocause because we will never capture the true feeling of the real event. i feel like we have to try because it educates us even if it's a tad off. we cant go off of nothing but i do see her point. we shouldnt believe the films are completely true. it is hard to produce the unimaginable because of censors today and the viewing audience would be small so it wont be a blockbuster, money-making film.