I'm italian and Roberto Benigni is very beloved in my country, and this movie is an institution here in Italy. PS : The actress who plays Dora is Nicoletta Braschi, and she's married to Roberto irl :) .
In Italy we also have a third of the country that goes around with their right arm straight in the air crying "viva il duce", and that would burn all the copies of "La Vita e bella". That's the sad thing.
@@raistlinmcfly7535that’s an obvious mistification… while it’s indeed sad that there are still people like that, one third is a completely made up number
@@raistlinmcfly7535 stop talking sheeet. the exalted people who support that man do so for other reasons, they attribute other presumed merits to him, which have nothing to do with the holocaust... Which is something that everyone condemns
I watched this at school, in Uruguay. I remember most of us cried at the end and how they made fun of one of my classmates for loudly sobbing, but I think she was doing what all of us felt and wanted to but were ashamed to (you know how kids are, thinking that crying is weak when that's not true). It is a beautiful but tragic story, obviously considering the theme and the reality behind it; I'm glad I could re-watch it with you both now 17 years later, when I can truly appreciate and understand it fully. Sending you lots of love, from South America. XOXO
Y es que tiene todo. Humor, drama, romance, suspenso y el tema histórico-militar. Como Forrest Gump y otras películas noventeras. Lo triste es que desde el 2000 ya no se hacen ese tipo de películas. Saludos desde Perú.
Oh @moiaena i was crying already! Your comment was the cherry on top!! But your insight, I agree with that, showing emotions and shedding tears loudly sobbing is no other than a sign of empathy and being human. Perhaps The world needs more people crying nowdays.
I first saw this movie in an old vaudeville theater in Glendale California that was built in the 1925. You couldn't ask for a better venue to see this movie. This is really one of the best films of all time. I am glad that you watched it.
@@thosesiblingss not so cool. She Is a notorious bad actress, a paragon in this field. But since She Is the wife, She gets roles anyway. There are often bad performances in their movies.
Giorgio Cantarini, the child actor who plays joshua also played maximus son in gladiator, he is the youngest actor to ever win the young artist award. And Giustino Durano (Guido's uncle) was a ww2 veteran, artilleryman in the italian army, he started his career in a prison camp shortly after being captured by the americans, he did little theater shows for other pows
Im half German and half polish. This is one of my fav. movies. The movie is just fantastic, it's shows the biggest crime in human history, the murder, this tragedy in such a brilliant way. I cry every time when I watch the movie. Your reaction was such a joy to watch. You understand every little subtext and line in this movie. I thank you for this. To see you react to it made me feel to discover this movie for the first time. The ending of your sister was perfect also. There is no need for a discussion after it. Just tears and no words that's the feeling I have also after this movie. Long live the humanity and fuck the racism and fascism!!!!
I love the carefreeness and poetry of the first part and the way Roberto Benigni kept this poetry all along the movie while suggesting the horror without showing too much (no gory images except one frame in the fog). That's why it makes it a poignant masterpiece for me. I'm glad you discovered and reacted this movie with us not too soon after Jojo Rabbit.
I'm italian, back in the '90 they would play this movie on tv, I guess nearly all my generation watched this one when we were 10 years old. This movie is one of those that none of us would watch more than 1 time, even if we were kids back then, and we still remember it. I've found myself humming the theme out of the blue more than once even after 20 years.
I love how the uncle, well knowing what is about to happen once he’ll undress, still help his “captor” up when she falls and ask if she’s hurt. That’s what growing up I was told a “real men” is like. One that no matte what, still follows his belief and if slapped on the right cheek turn the left.
È un riferimento a fatti realmente accaduti nei campi. La stessa Liliana Segre, dopo la sconfitta dei tedeschi, si ritrovò davanti uno dei soldati disarmato. Avrebbe potuto raccogliere il suo fucile e uccide*lo senza pagarne alcuna conseguenza, qualsiasi essere umano avrebbe voluto farlo dopo anni di prigionia e tortura, ma lei non lo fece. Sembra irrealistico ma l'umanità è sopravvissuta davvero persino ai campi di concentramento.
I'm Italian and this movie was such a huge thing at the time of its release. I was in high school and our Italian teacher brought us to the cinema in order to better appreciate it. It's been an unique experience. Only a mad genius like Benigni could turn such a dramatic topic into comedy, and my personal expectations were all turned upside down. It's become one of my favorite movies ever and got so proud of the three Oscars it won!5'
now you have to watch the video when Benigni won two oscars for this movie, you will see that he was just being himself when he was being crazy in the movie 😄
I loved the movie when I watched it at school, just released, when I was 12. Now that I'm a father I can't fugging watch it no more. Wonderful reaction to a wonderful movie.
One of the most compelling movies ever made. And ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE. It should be treated and honored as a world heritage object, like we do with historical sights etc.
There is another Italian movie "Perlasca-un eroe italiano" (an Italian hero)... The movie is not as good, sadly... But Giorgio Perlasca story is the most incredible ever, my favorite, saying nothing for 50 years and found by the people he saved in Hungary, from Jerusalem, just in 1997... Protecting 4 times as many people as Schindler... If you don't know his story, please search for it.. Is inspiring
Wow -- this is such a beautiful film! Well done with your reactions and commentary. It's amazing that this film makes us laugh and smile while it depicts arguably the darkest and most evil episodes in all of human history. I think that this is why the film resonates so much. A father successfully attempted to save his son (and his son's mind) from the perceiving the worst of humanity during an actual process of unfathomable genocide. He did this by making him smile and laugh (often at the Nazi's expense) under the pretense of a "game." What a beautiful gift!
I need to mentally prepare myself for watching this. Haven't seen it since I was about 18 and I remember it broke me, especially the "We won" at the end. Even more than Schindler's List that I watched with my whole class when it came out when I was 13 or 14 (I'm from Austria and obviously old - I think we rented Life is Beautiful from a Blockbuster back then). My 8 year old son is now starting to ask questions about the Holocaust, he knows very little so far, only what they learned in 2nd grade. He's a foster child, he's been through a lot and young for his age and to be honest I wish I could hide the truth from him for much longer.
Se è stato adottato, posso dirti per esperienza personale che probabilmente ha già un filtro di normalizzazione per alcune atrocità, ma al contempo anche una certa empatia e la spinta al bene. Non ne sono certa perché ovviamente non conosco il tuo ragazzo, ma per quanto riguarda me non ho mai avuto traumi riguardo le tragedie del mondo (al limite se si avvivinano troppo ad un qualcosa di personale evito di ascoltarle). Mi si spezza il cuore ma tendo irrimediabilmente al domani, alla compensazione positiva, anche all'attivismo (alla sensibilizzazione, alle donazioni, adozioni a distanza, sono anche volontaria per la A.A.E. ed ho casa piena di coniglietti adottati...) Il mondo sa essere crudele, io per dargli un senso inseguo il bene, amo il bene che fanno le persone. Ecco se posso darti un consiglio, ricorda a tuo figlio che al mondo esiste ed esisterà sempre Umanitá.
As someone with some Jewish family on my mother's side, I find these sort of movies a hard watch, but this is a truly original take on a horrible part of human history. Well done for being strong enough to sit through a great movie.
I loved Roberto from his previous movies.He is such a tru person in his big opus.This masterpiece is one more proof that comedians are very serious and deep mind persons.Glory to you „Monstero"❤❤❤❤Serbia
Really enjoyed the reaction guys. I'm italian and it's always heartwelming to see the love for this precious film. If you liked it, maybe can i suggest "Johnny Stecchino"? Same actors and a funny story.
Damn you guys… I’ve seen this movie a lot of times but your reaction made me emotional again. Please stop the war. Every child killed is our own responsability. Stop war, stop genocyde
I loved this film. I would like to recommend Cinema Paradiso. Not another holocaust story, but also beautiful, with a wonderful cry at the end. But a good cry, not a sad one.
Oddly, this is the first movie I bought on DVD circa 1997. I had bought my first DVD player and went to a used media store. It was inexpensive and looked interesting.
I like how Steven Spielberg tried to use what pull he had to stop this movie from winning any awards, because according to him, it made light of the Holocaust.
I didn't know that. That makes it stranger to think about it at the Oscars ceremony when Benigni was standing on the chairs and Spielberg helped him to not fall... People should check/react to Benigni winning the Oscar video...
An Italian Jew here, I saw this movie when it came out in 1995 with my grandma, I was 10 years old. It was an amazing experience to watch it with her who escaped from fascist persecution! Am Israel Chai ❤
I saw this over the course of a few days at school. I didn't know what it was. One day it was hilarious. The next day, they were entering the trains. It was so shocking.
I saw this film when it came out and to this day it is one of my favourite films ever. A storie of the most beautiful unsellfish love even when everything is submerged in ugliness and horror, all ending with the most powerful victory of light over darkness. Roberto Begnini does remind me in some ways of Charlie Chaplin, an actor that the younger generations are perhaps not so familiar with, unfortunately. They both are comeadic clowns (Chaplin very much so) and use their whole bodies as an exceptional communication tool. Chaplin made his film the "Great Dictator" in 1940, where he satirizes Adolph H. and Mussolini, even when others were still denying, sometimes supporting, their crimes. He payed a price for his visionary and brave rejection of those regimes and ideologies. Roberto Begnini won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie and the movie won the Oscar for best foreign movie.
Awesome reaction guys 👍I first saw this movie as a kid and it literally gave me nightmares, thinking that so many people could do what they did without considering the absurdity of their actions. Years later this movie taught me to hate racism.
I love this movie, benigni is an amazing person, we love him here in italy, when i was a teen i loved life is beautiful. I am so glad that this movie is known outside of italy. I wish u all a merry christmas❤
I watched it once when it came out and loved it. It's a rottweiler dressed up as a cute chihuahua, that's what makes it more effective. I remember it very well and can't bring myself to watch it again.
You two are more brave than I am! Will not watch, I know this movie will brake me. Same reason I couldn"t go into the Jewish Museum in Prague. Couldn't bare to view the artwork of the children in the camps. Shalom❤
There was an Auschwitz exhibit in Boston, and I wanted to go since I have never been to the real site, as sort of a small sample before one day I go to the real one. It completely broke me... I went with a friend and I was trying to not embarrass myself by sobbing any time he asked me to translate something or explain something. I reached the end, took a deep breath, and my head was spinning, can't even describe the affect, then I read the sign again and realized it was not the end... but about 50%... it was the halfway point, and my friend told me he was sorry and that he couldn't finish. I told him that at the point we owed to the stories of those after that point to see it all and we pushed through. I did the rest crying because I couldn't hold it in. I don't know how I'll ever be able to go to the actual site if this was as impactful as it was...
Since you both enjoyed Roberto Benigni's performance in this movie, I think you would very much like his slightly earlier movie The Monster, much closer to pure comedy though the story involves a serious background set of events; it's a brilliant film in which a serial killer is preying on women, and Benigni stars as the shlemiel who unwittingly becomes the main suspect the police are watching. It's hilarious to see how everything he does, of which we know the innocent explanation, makes the police more and more sure that he is the killer.
I am Italian and obviously I love this film, but I would also like to recommend another film released almost simultaneously in 1998 entitled "Train de vie" - directed by Radu Mihăileanu with music by Goran Bregović, whose main role was offered and rejected by Roberto Benigni precisely because film "Life is Beautiful". It is a funny, brilliant, philosophical, surreal and tragic comedy about the escape route to the Shoa (Holocaust), where the desire to live, humanity is stronger than fear
I recommend Train de Vie: it has a bad final twist although not as bad as this ending, because at the end it remains open, but the whole film is fun (except the last minute) and is a treasure chest of wisdom
You must watch “il postino”. It’s a different story but another Italian masterpiece. And if you know the story of the main actor, Massimo Troisi, you are going to have goosebumps at the end of the movie.
The first time a watched this movie I had the strangest dream, scary but with an ironic ending.I was in the same camp with my little basset dog (she's gone now). As the nazis were splitting I was with an officer who swore he'd kill the dog first and then shoot me. I picked up his fountain pen and stuck it in his neck behind his Adam's apple and wore his uniform. This is where it turned ironic. Leaving the camp and acting stoic with the puppy on a leash a thought struck me: " I am not convincing as a damned nazi but she is even less believable as a German sheperd!".I woke up in my bed with the puppy licking my nose to calm me down.The scene, the colours and sorroundings were exactly like in the movie. 😦😢
I remember whrn this movie came up in the cinemas, nobody knew about the plot, nobody had never seen benigni being so dramatic and for many people has been a trauma to find out while watching it
I'm Italian too... Even though I almost know this movie line by line, I can't avoid breaking in tears each time I see it, even with you now... That's why I stopped watching it! 😭😭😭😭😭 If you're still wondering if the story is real, it's not... But the reason why I cry so Much is not because it's a great movie, but because unfortunately what happened during the shoah is true and much more painful of what is shown in here... 💔💔 The sad thing is that too many people has forgotten and repeating the same errors! Am Israel chai! ❤
Do u like Benigni eh?😂 remember this guy its magic ❤❤ Ps this fantastic film to remember the freedom from the Nazis when we reach the last years of school it becomes a traditional film to watch, and today it reminds us again of the sensations, the goosebumps
You should absolutely watch French film Train de vie (Train of Life). It's quite similar in its outlook. It's by Jewish Romanian-French filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu. He later made another wonderful movie, Le concert (The Concert). It is part crazy comedy, part touching drama about the magic of music and lives broken by Soviet Communism.
I'm italian and Roberto Benigni is very beloved in my country, and this movie is an institution here in Italy. PS : The actress who plays Dora is Nicoletta Braschi, and she's married to Roberto irl :) .
Yes. And the movie is based on a true story. Grazie Giulia e grazie a voi ragazzi per questa reaction ❤
Bella, sorè😂😂
Il film più sopravvalutato di Benigni, ne ha fatti di molto migliori
No no no
Benigni è il migliore
In Italy they show us this film in school. It's really an institution for us, everyone over the age of 15 has seen it.
In Italy we also have a third of the country that goes around with their right arm straight in the air crying "viva il duce", and that would burn all the copies of "La Vita e bella". That's the sad thing.
@@raistlinmcfly7535 Yeah, this is unfortunately true. A lot of people minimize the weight of our history.
@@raistlinmcfly7535that’s an obvious mistification… while it’s indeed sad that there are still people like that, one third is a completely made up number
@@Dragoslao one quarter ;)
@@raistlinmcfly7535 stop talking sheeet. the exalted people who support that man do so for other reasons, they attribute other presumed merits to him, which have nothing to do with the holocaust... Which is something that everyone condemns
I'm italian and I cried all my tears again watching this with you, this is such a beautiful movie 😢
ahah, anche io!! 😭😭
Non è assolutamente vero.
@@Simone-dh1nw ora abbassa il braccio, tigre
@@Giulio1708 abbassalo te
In "JOJO RABBIT" the kid has to grown up. In "LIFE IS BEAUTIUL" the kid has to stay a child, to keep his innocence. ❤
Good observation!
true, but the kid in JOJO RABBIT is older than Joshua...anyway the scarlett's shoes is so touching and beautiful...great movie, i agree
I'm not Italian. I'm not Jewish. But it's impossible not to cry watching this. Beautiful and sad.
I watched this at school, in Uruguay. I remember most of us cried at the end and how they made fun of one of my classmates for loudly sobbing, but I think she was doing what all of us felt and wanted to but were ashamed to (you know how kids are, thinking that crying is weak when that's not true).
It is a beautiful but tragic story, obviously considering the theme and the reality behind it; I'm glad I could re-watch it with you both now 17 years later, when I can truly appreciate and understand it fully.
Sending you lots of love, from South America. XOXO
Y es que tiene todo. Humor, drama, romance, suspenso y el tema histórico-militar. Como Forrest Gump y otras películas noventeras. Lo triste es que desde el 2000 ya no se hacen ese tipo de películas. Saludos desde Perú.
Oh @moiaena i was crying already! Your comment was the cherry on top!! But your insight, I agree with that, showing emotions and shedding tears loudly sobbing is no other than a sign of empathy and being human. Perhaps The world needs more people crying nowdays.
I first saw this movie in an old vaudeville theater in Glendale California that was built in the 1925. You couldn't ask for a better venue to see this movie. This is really one of the best films of all time. I am glad that you watched it.
The actress playing "Princess" is his wife in real life!
Omg really?? That's so cool 😎
@@thosesiblingssYes, Benigni and Braschi ( his wife) made a lot of movies together
@@xanomenx Which is romantic but unfortunate at the same time because,unlike him,she's an AWFUL actress!X-PPP
@@thosesiblingss You may try Down by Law (1986) then Night on Earth (1991) both by Jim Jarmusch and Begnini is hilarious in both.
@@thosesiblingss not so cool. She Is a notorious bad actress, a paragon in this field. But since She Is the wife, She gets roles anyway. There are often bad performances in their movies.
Giorgio Cantarini, the child actor who plays joshua also played maximus son in gladiator, he is the youngest actor to ever win the young artist award.
And Giustino Durano (Guido's uncle) was a ww2 veteran, artilleryman in the italian army, he started his career in a prison camp shortly after being captured by the americans, he did little theater shows for other pows
I cry every time, this movie is an Italian masterpiece and Roberto is a genius ❤
The level of love and strength his dad had was out of this world ❤😢
What a privilege to share this movie with you. Thank you for this reaction video.
Im half German and half polish. This is one of my fav. movies.
The movie is just fantastic, it's shows the biggest crime in human history, the murder, this tragedy in such a brilliant way.
I cry every time when I watch the movie.
Your reaction was such a joy to watch. You understand every little subtext and line in this movie.
I thank you for this.
To see you react to it made me feel to discover this movie for the first time.
The ending of your sister was perfect also. There is no need for a discussion after it. Just tears and no words that's the feeling I have also after this movie.
Long live the humanity and fuck the racism and fascism!!!!
So now nazis is racism and fascism is fascism… Just saying
I love the carefreeness and poetry of the first part and the way Roberto Benigni kept this poetry all along the movie while suggesting the horror without showing too much (no gory images except one frame in the fog). That's why it makes it a poignant masterpiece for me. I'm glad you discovered and reacted this movie with us not too soon after Jojo Rabbit.
I'm italian, back in the '90 they would play this movie on tv, I guess nearly all my generation watched this one when we were 10 years old. This movie is one of those that none of us would watch more than 1 time, even if we were kids back then, and we still remember it.
I've found myself humming the theme out of the blue more than once even after 20 years.
I love how the uncle, well knowing what is about to happen once he’ll undress, still help his “captor” up when she falls and ask if she’s hurt.
That’s what growing up I was told a “real men” is like. One that no matte what, still follows his belief and if slapped on the right cheek turn the left.
È un riferimento a fatti realmente accaduti nei campi. La stessa Liliana Segre, dopo la sconfitta dei tedeschi, si ritrovò davanti uno dei soldati disarmato. Avrebbe potuto raccogliere il suo fucile e uccide*lo senza pagarne alcuna conseguenza, qualsiasi essere umano avrebbe voluto farlo dopo anni di prigionia e tortura, ma lei non lo fece.
Sembra irrealistico ma l'umanità è sopravvissuta davvero persino ai campi di concentramento.
From an Italian, sorry for my English, but thank you, thank you for watching and show to the people this masterpiece ❤ 🇮🇹 it will be never get old
roberto's character is 1 of the best fathers in movie history
nah bro, THE best by at least a mile.
I'm Italian and this movie was such a huge thing at the time of its release. I was in high school and our Italian teacher brought us to the cinema in order to better appreciate it. It's been an unique experience. Only a mad genius like Benigni could turn such a dramatic topic into comedy, and my personal expectations were all turned upside down. It's become one of my favorite movies ever and got so proud of the three Oscars it won!5'
"Mamma!"
Damn, would you look at the time, it's Cry o'clock😭
now you have to watch the video when Benigni won two oscars for this movie, you will see that he was just being himself when he was being crazy in the movie 😄
That's actually 3!
This always makes me cry but you two were amazing. I don't like seeing her cry but I get why. God bless you both.
Thank you ♥️
I loved the movie when I watched it at school, just released, when I was 12.
Now that I'm a father I can't fugging watch it no more.
Wonderful reaction to a wonderful movie.
One of my all-time favorite movies. Seen it many, many times. It was quite an experience to "see" it one more time with you two. Cheers from Brazil.
One of the most compelling movies ever made.
And ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE.
It should be treated and honored as a world heritage object, like we do with historical sights etc.
There is another Italian movie "Perlasca-un eroe italiano" (an Italian hero)... The movie is not as good, sadly... But Giorgio Perlasca story is the most incredible ever, my favorite, saying nothing for 50 years and found by the people he saved in Hungary, from Jerusalem, just in 1997... Protecting 4 times as many people as Schindler... If you don't know his story, please search for it.. Is inspiring
He saved 65.000 jewish from extermination during WW2.
He's an hero for the whole mankind.
Wow -- this is such a beautiful film! Well done with your reactions and commentary. It's amazing that this film makes us laugh and smile while it depicts arguably the darkest and most evil episodes in all of human history. I think that this is why the film resonates so much. A father successfully attempted to save his son (and his son's mind) from the perceiving the worst of humanity during an actual process of unfathomable genocide. He did this by making him smile and laugh (often at the Nazi's expense) under the pretense of a "game." What a beautiful gift!
Beautiful movie, I remember watching it in the theaters when I was a kid, it's an unforgettable experience
It's a wonderful film!! The brilliant verve of Roberto Benigni makes this film a precious stone of world cinematography of all time!!!
I need to mentally prepare myself for watching this. Haven't seen it since I was about 18 and I remember it broke me, especially the "We won" at the end. Even more than Schindler's List that I watched with my whole class when it came out when I was 13 or 14 (I'm from Austria and obviously old - I think we rented Life is Beautiful from a Blockbuster back then).
My 8 year old son is now starting to ask questions about the Holocaust, he knows very little so far, only what they learned in 2nd grade. He's a foster child, he's been through a lot and young for his age and to be honest I wish I could hide the truth from him for much longer.
Se è stato adottato, posso dirti per esperienza personale che probabilmente ha già un filtro di normalizzazione per alcune atrocità, ma al contempo anche una certa empatia e la spinta al bene.
Non ne sono certa perché ovviamente non conosco il tuo ragazzo, ma per quanto riguarda me non ho mai avuto traumi riguardo le tragedie del mondo (al limite se si avvivinano troppo ad un qualcosa di personale evito di ascoltarle). Mi si spezza il cuore ma tendo irrimediabilmente al domani, alla compensazione positiva, anche all'attivismo (alla sensibilizzazione, alle donazioni, adozioni a distanza, sono anche volontaria per la A.A.E. ed ho casa piena di coniglietti adottati...)
Il mondo sa essere crudele, io per dargli un senso inseguo il bene, amo il bene che fanno le persone.
Ecco se posso darti un consiglio, ricorda a tuo figlio che al mondo esiste ed esisterà sempre Umanitá.
As someone with some Jewish family on my mother's side, I find these sort of movies a hard watch, but this is a truly original take on a horrible part of human history. Well done for being strong enough to sit through a great movie.
This is kind of an hard watch for anyone I must say
@@CoffeeSipper555 For anyone who has a heart. And most of us do.
I loved Roberto from his previous movies.He is such a tru person in his big opus.This masterpiece is one more proof that comedians are very serious and deep mind persons.Glory to you „Monstero"❤❤❤❤Serbia
❤ I saw 'Life is Beautiful', I see your reaction, now I follow your channel ❤ cheers from Italy, 🇮🇹☺️
Welcome 😊
Really enjoyed the reaction guys. I'm italian and it's always heartwelming to see the love for this precious film. If you liked it, maybe can i suggest "Johnny Stecchino"? Same actors and a funny story.
Yes, watching Johnny Stecchino would be a great mood booster after this, especially as it's obvious they both enjoy his style of comedy.
Also "The monster" is very good.
"Small Devil" together Walter Mathau
Cant hold my tears great reaction, peace for everyone
this hits everytime, and in Italian it's triplicated. Can only imagine what even deeper emotions gets on you❤
I really liked this movie, it's sad and happy at the same time.
Once you finish watching it, you feel in an emotional limbo
Damn you guys… I’ve seen this movie a lot of times but your reaction made me emotional again.
Please stop the war. Every child killed is our own responsability.
Stop war, stop genocyde
Great reaction. You two are really interesting and I like your commentaries a lot. Big hello from Sweden. This movie is really sensitive and funny.
The only movie that makes me cry from the first to the last minute and even then.
I loved this film. I would like to recommend Cinema Paradiso. Not another holocaust story, but also beautiful, with a wonderful cry at the end. But a good cry, not a sad one.
Oddly, this is the first movie I bought on DVD circa 1997. I had bought my first DVD player and went to a used media store. It was inexpensive and looked interesting.
Probably not in 1997. The movie came out in theatres in Italy on December 20th 1997. In other countries only a year later.
@@tFighterPilot That era. Could be 98 or 99. It's more than 25 years ago. There's a reason I used the word "circa."
28:39 is a great moment in this reaction, with laughter through tears. That's what this movie is about.
I like how Steven Spielberg tried to use what pull he had to stop this movie from winning any awards, because according to him, it made light of the Holocaust.
Uh?
I didn't know that. That makes it stranger to think about it at the Oscars ceremony when Benigni was standing on the chairs and Spielberg helped him to not fall...
People should check/react to Benigni winning the Oscar video...
Yep, I've heard this side of this story too. Schindler's List was such a bore in comparison.
This... to this day is the Movie that made me feel the widest range of emotions
An Italian Jew here, I saw this movie when it came out in 1995 with my grandma, I was 10 years old. It was an amazing experience to watch it with her who escaped from fascist persecution! Am Israel Chai ❤
I saw this over the course of a few days at school. I didn't know what it was. One day it was hilarious. The next day, they were entering the trains. It was so shocking.
06:16 - 06:21 I love this parallel!🤣🤣💖💖I'm so proud of this movie and of our Roberto!💚🤍❤
I saw this film when it came out and to this day it is one of my favourite films ever. A storie of the most beautiful unsellfish love even when everything is submerged in ugliness and horror, all ending with the most powerful victory of light over darkness.
Roberto Begnini does remind me in some ways of Charlie Chaplin, an actor that the younger generations are perhaps not so familiar with, unfortunately. They both are comeadic clowns (Chaplin very much so) and use their whole bodies as an exceptional communication tool.
Chaplin made his film the "Great Dictator" in 1940, where he satirizes Adolph H. and Mussolini, even when others were still denying, sometimes supporting, their crimes. He payed a price for his visionary and brave rejection of those regimes and ideologies.
Roberto Begnini won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie and the movie won the Oscar for best foreign movie.
I’m Italian, and the movie the life is beautiful, Tell a tragedy turned into a masterpiece.
It's for me the best movie I've ever seen in my life. Sublime
It is a shame it just won an Oscar for best foreign movie. Today it would win best picture Oscar outright.
Three, actually: Best Foreign Movie, Best Lead Actor, Best Music Score.
Awesome reaction guys 👍I first saw this movie as a kid and it literally gave me nightmares, thinking that so many people could do what they did without considering the absurdity of their actions. Years later this movie taught me to hate racism.
I love this movie, benigni is an amazing person, we love him here in italy, when i was a teen i loved life is beautiful. I am so glad that this movie is known outside of italy. I wish u all a merry christmas❤
Today is 25th december
I watched it once when it came out and loved it. It's a rottweiler dressed up as a cute chihuahua, that's what makes it more effective. I remember it very well and can't bring myself to watch it again.
You two are more brave than I am! Will not watch, I know this movie will brake me. Same reason I couldn"t go into the Jewish Museum in Prague. Couldn't bare to view the artwork of the children in the camps. Shalom❤
There was an Auschwitz exhibit in Boston, and I wanted to go since I have never been to the real site, as sort of a small sample before one day I go to the real one. It completely broke me... I went with a friend and I was trying to not embarrass myself by sobbing any time he asked me to translate something or explain something. I reached the end, took a deep breath, and my head was spinning, can't even describe the affect, then I read the sign again and realized it was not the end... but about 50%... it was the halfway point, and my friend told me he was sorry and that he couldn't finish. I told him that at the point we owed to the stories of those after that point to see it all and we pushed through. I did the rest crying because I couldn't hold it in.
I don't know how I'll ever be able to go to the actual site if this was as impactful as it was...
Since you both enjoyed Roberto Benigni's performance in this movie, I think you would very much like his slightly earlier movie The Monster, much closer to pure comedy though the story involves a serious background set of events; it's a brilliant film in which a serial killer is preying on women, and Benigni stars as the shlemiel who unwittingly becomes the main suspect the police are watching. It's hilarious to see how everything he does, of which we know the innocent explanation, makes the police more and more sure that he is the killer.
Ciao ragazzi, mi sono commosso nel vedervi commossi. Per la grandezza di Roberto, fiero di essere ITALIANO. 🇮🇹
This movie will be always a magic!You have to see also Train De Vie
This won the Oscar for best movie
best foreigner movie
And also for best actor and music
and this is the sacrifice my father made for me. EVERY TIME!
seeing your reaction make me feel proud to be italian...
Reminds me a lot of shawshank redemption. There's a lot of shawshank before Joshua shouts out "é vero!" (Its true, I've won a tank)
Great movie... Looking forward to seeing y'all's reaction 😊.
Take Care and Stay Safe 🙏✌️💞🕊️
Thanks ♥️♥️
You just enjoied one of the most beautiful italian movies!!
Ho pianto solo a rivedere le vostre emozioni 😢😢
One of the greatest films of all time
wonderful reaction, so sentimental and beautiful
Great reactions for a great movie!
So hard to watch this movie and so beautiful at the same time. Courage.
Indeed 💔
It's nice that you ended the video without further words
Italian's films are Next level!
I cry everytime i see it...
If this movie made you cry so much, get a truckload of tissues ready for "Schindler's List."
Ho adorato quel film.
È un capolavoro
Great reaction. I always liked this movie but you made me really like it a lot with your reaction
Thank you ♥️
I am Italian and obviously I love this film, but I would also like to recommend another film released almost simultaneously in 1998 entitled "Train de vie" - directed by Radu Mihăileanu with music by Goran Bregović, whose main role was offered and rejected by Roberto Benigni precisely because film "Life is Beautiful". It is a funny, brilliant, philosophical, surreal and tragic comedy about the escape route to the Shoa (Holocaust), where the desire to live, humanity is stronger than fear
I recommend Train de Vie: it has a bad final twist although not as bad as this ending, because at the end it remains open, but the whole film is fun (except the last minute) and is a treasure chest of wisdom
Hi from our Italy ❤ Benigni Is a Genius..peace..
21:02 she didnt run cause she wanted whatever fate came to her family.
Beautiful movie,makes me cry every time.
You must watch “il postino”. It’s a different story but another Italian masterpiece. And if you know the story of the main actor, Massimo Troisi, you are going to have goosebumps at the end of the movie.
The first time a watched this
movie I had the strangest dream, scary but with an ironic
ending.I was in the same camp with my little basset dog
(she's gone now). As the nazis
were splitting I was with an
officer who swore he'd kill the
dog first and then shoot me.
I picked up his fountain pen
and stuck it in his neck behind
his Adam's apple and wore his
uniform. This is where it turned
ironic. Leaving the camp and
acting stoic with the puppy on
a leash a thought struck me:
" I am not convincing as a
damned nazi but she is even
less believable as a German
sheperd!".I woke up in my bed
with the puppy licking my nose
to calm me down.The scene,
the colours and sorroundings
were exactly like in the movie.
😦😢
😭😭😭😭 ho pianto tantissimo con questo film, Roberto è stato magistrale, maestuoso, magnifico!!! 😭😭😭❤♾️
Marisa Paredes the grandma was died at 17th December 2024 😢 i didnt notice her before
Wonderful comedy with same actor and actress, consider reacting:
"Monster" or "Il Mostro" (1994)
Great reaction guy's , I will like to see your reaction to the Schlinder's list
I recommend the film in b/w 'Daunbailò (Down by law) of 1986...all acted in English by Roberto Benigni with Tom Waits and John Lurie, bye ! 😊
I remember whrn this movie came up in the cinemas, nobody knew about the plot, nobody had never seen benigni being so dramatic and for many people has been a trauma to find out while watching it
Trivia: iirc, the movie authors said they just came up with a fake riddle, it doesn't really have a solution.
One of my favorite movie! 🔝
You absolutely must watch Rocco and his brothers, which is also Marti Scorsese's favorite film!
Great Italian 🇮🇹 movie and nice reaction 😢❤
This movie is the love ❤ thank you to have give it a shot.
This is a wonderful film! ❤
amigame pasas la película porfa💔💔💔💔
I'm Italian too... Even though I almost know this movie line by line, I can't avoid breaking in tears each time I see it, even with you now... That's why I stopped watching it! 😭😭😭😭😭
If you're still wondering if the story is real, it's not... But the reason why I cry so Much is not because it's a great movie, but because unfortunately what happened during the shoah is true and much more painful of what is shown in here... 💔💔 The sad thing is that too many people has forgotten and repeating the same errors! Am Israel chai! ❤
Do u like Benigni eh?😂 remember this guy its magic ❤❤
Ps this fantastic film to remember the freedom from the Nazis when we reach the last years of school it becomes a traditional film to watch, and today it reminds us again of the sensations, the goosebumps
Another beautiful film about WW2 is (The Pianist, I recommend it)
You should absolutely watch French film Train de vie (Train of Life). It's quite similar in its outlook. It's by Jewish Romanian-French filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu. He later made another wonderful movie, Le concert (The Concert). It is part crazy comedy, part touching drama about the magic of music and lives broken by Soviet Communism.