This movie is not so much as a Holocaust movie as it is a love story, and an incredibly touching one at that. Therefore it can be fully and completely exonerated for not being "Schindler's List" (which, by the way, is not nearly as good as everyone thinks it is). What La Vita e Bella is is a story that restores hope in mankind; it says that even in the face of ultimate evil, love will always triumph. At the end of the film ("We won!"), I felt that Life is, indeed, beautiful.