Life Is Beautiful Blog 4/16/15

     Life is Beautiful and Night both have what usual Holocaust things contain. For example, there's always a showcase of life before and ends at the liberation. A very great connection made was that both fathers died right before liberation. There was also a situation in which the family was separated. Causing the father and son to bond. Although in Night the father/son band was more special since the father and son never usually communicate or hang out with each other. In Life is Beautiful the father, Guido, constantly protects his son's innocence by telling his son that the camp is a big game.

      What events, scenes, or situations are similar or different? What is similar or different about the mood or tone of the pieces? As stated before, the likes and differences are things like family separation, and father/son bonding. Both have a grim mood and only Life is Beautiful had a comedic mood throughout the film. A big difference that I found was that in Night, the prisoners were cruel and one even killed his own father for bread. In Life is Beautiful, most of the prisoners played along and helped preserve Joshua's innocence. 

     Life is shown as beautiful and is easily spotted in the beginning. Guido meets the woman of his dreams. After marriage, they had a kid and Guido opened up his bookstore. Although he did have to make the books half off, he was living his dream in a way. Then in the camp, Life is beautiful because for the most part, everyone's alive. Also, Guido got to comfort/give his wife a sense of security that everything was ok twice. Once by using the speakers and the other time by playing the song they heard in the play when he was a waiter for the camp.