This movie is about Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian, who is imprisoned at a concentration camp with his family, and he has to use his imagination to keep his son and wife alive. Guido and his son are separated from his wife, and Guido is left to keep his son alive while not knowing what is happening. Guido creates a game to keep his son optimistic. He wittingly goes against all the rules and does what nobody would have ever consider doing. His main goal is to reunite with his wife, and he constantly sends little messages to tell her that they are still there and alive. This was a really good movie, and it was different from other movies in the way that it included a lot of humor. Some people may ask whether a war movie can be humorous and serious at the same time, and this movie definitely showed that it can. I don't cry while watching movies, but if I did, this would definitely be one of those movies where I both laughed and cried.
I think that the point of this film was to show how innocent people were affected by war. It really emphasized the fact that some of the victims of war were optimistic and never gave up; in fact, the victims often helped eachother out even though they barely had enough for themselves. This movie showed how the people who were considered "unhuman" were perhaps the most human in their attempts to live in the terrible conditions. The filmmaker most likely wanted to show that good often shines through all the bad.
I don't know if there are really many similarities or differences. One of the similarities that I noticed was the idea of sticking together during war. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Roland Weary and the two other scouts banded together to become "The Three Musketeers." In Life is Beautiful, Guido and his family come together to fight until the end. Another similarity had to do with the theme of childhood. In Life is Beautiful, one of the main characters is a child, and the movie really showed how war affected his childhood, beliefs, and how the father had to treat him. In this movie, the idea of childhood innocence plays a huge role. One difference I noticed was the role of the characters. Slaughterhouse-Five is about the soldiers of the war, while Life is Beautiful is actually about the Jewish victims. Both have to do with the people of war, but they played different roles in the actual war.
I think that Mary O'Hare would have enjoyed this movie. It really showed how bad the effects of war were on the victims. It involved not only adults but also children to show that the young and the innocent were also affected. Mary O'Hare didn't like that many books/movies encouraged war, and this movie definitely did not. Some people don't like the humor in the movie, but the filmmakers did an awesome job of capturing the pain, truth, and trauma of war.
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