La Vita E Bella

lAira G. ManaloAugust 31, 2012 COM31Mr. Edgar Garnace Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) I believe that being free is a matter of choice. We argon free because we want to be regulated non by otherwise people but ourselves. We make choices together with the thought of reservation a choice for the good of everyone. We exist not for other people to confiscate strings on our hands and feet and do the manipulation. I dont exactly make out what to feel ab let out this film. It was a good caper and a painful thing for me at the same time.Guido (Roberto Benigni) is such an hopeful human being, a positive father to his give-and-take Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini) and a gentle married man to his wife Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), who he treated like a princess if I may have to mention. As for me, being a person who freaks out when things dont go right, I have perfectly seen how Guido make life beautiful for his son and wife. It hurts me to see him hiding the truth from his son by reinventi ng the things that happens inside the concentration face pack.In the midst of that threatening situation, Guido manipulated his world and make life beautiful for him and his family. I think that is the very essence of the film, making life perfect for you, even if it reall(a)y isnt for the entire world. It is alpha that we find beauty even in the darkest and cruelest of places. Dora amazed me too. I allow for not forget how she willingly set foot into that train containing all Jewish people. I can see how strong her love is for her husband and son that she can give up her life just to be with them.I have seen her change from a spoiled girl who fell into Guidos arms and turned out into someone braver and stronger, someone who thinks not practically of her own sake anymore. This is where I would now start relating it to Existentialism. The very marrow of this philosophy is that Existence precedes Essence. It emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual dumbfound in a hostile or indifferent universe and stresses granting immunity of choice and responsibility for the consequences of ones own doings. It is just so ironic for me that a person like Guido is living in a world where freedom is the rarest of all terms.The Nazis have defined what living should remember for them, which I to a fault think is very contradicting to the center value of Existentialism, which is freedom. A person defines himself and what he wants to make of himself. No one could ever define him as a person but only what he wants him to be. The Jews in this movie let the Nazis define the world for them, though I know they are left with no other choice but to note responding to what these people want them to do, because if not, they will cease to exist.This is what Sartre called Quietism. The poor Jews let the Nazis influence for them because they are afraid to die, to get hurt, even if being shot to oddment while fighting for freedom would be a better ending than be degr aded by people of other race, in my opinion. I have seen an authentic person in Guido. In his quiet ship canal he defined the world for himself. He fought for what he thinks is right and in that respect he exercised his freedom.He tried to fight his way out of the hellish camp if not for himself but for his family, and this he thinks is right not for himself but also for those other people with him. Life is beautiful. It will be if you want it to be. When things are not going right for me, I know ranting wont make them all right. I know that I unendingly have the choice. I would always remember Guido who has found beauty in the ugliest of places. Because the man who can accept all the barriers and restrictions in life and is not afraid of them is free.