spoiler ahead representthere be many and many movie about wwii and both about the battle and about the condition of life for the people involve and especially the situation of the jew in europe . when someone make a movie on this latter subject and it be very difficult for anyone to criticize it . 1998 _life be beautiful_ receive some criticism and but mainly because it contain comic element where people felt there should be only tragedy . but if the film be a drama and then it be basically untouchable by critic and viewer . and a for this film itself and it be direct by an old master who have be out of it for a while . even if the film be terrible and there be no way and when it come out in the early 70 and that anyone be go to call it less than a masterpiece and an instant classic and if you will . well and this film be in no way terrible . in fact and it be very good . it affect me enough where i do tear up a bit . i be touch at certain point . but i also be acutely aware of some of the film shortcoming a i watch . first off and the reason why i tear up and i. e. and what i do like about the film especially represent the relationship between georgio and micol . i connect with it instantly because i have be through similar circumstance . it be rather painful and let me tell you . i long for micol right along side with georgio and and felt utterly reject simultaneously with him . this be the way one should experience a great film . there be two more relationship that be really well developed and deeply felt by me and both involve georgio represent georgio and his father and a very good character play by a marvelous actor and and georgio and malnate . the rest of the character be very sloppily make . do alberto finzi contini exist for any other reason than to create that great funeral procession scene . he be barely in the movie at all . i have think they have forget him for a long time and then they finally come back to him and and he be next to death . the finzi contini family be hardly existent . i think the father be a butler until very near the end of the film . a cheap joke be make about the centegenarian grandmother inability to hear well ( although this character have a very poignant scene at the very end of the film ) . possibly the big problem of the film be that the scene deal with anti semitism and the onset of war never really coalesce with the problem surround micol and georgio relationship . the latter theme dominate the film and while the former only appear in the background . this structure would have be fine and but the background section of the film never seem to influence much the foreground . georgio could have just a easily have fall in love with micol without the war go on . this be not what put stress on their relationship . possibly the main theme that de sica be try to get through in the film be that our personal life do not naturally care about what be happen in society and but society keep try to push it way into our personal life . unfortunately and it only work to a certain extent . the film be too short for it subject matter . it be only 94 minute long . if it have be two hour or even two and a half and the two part would have fit together well and the main theme would have be a lot more potent . one of my very favorite film have the exact same theme represent _the unbearable lightness of being_ and where people attempt to love each other in czechoslovakia while the soviet oppress them . it be three hour long and and it work on every level . in _the garden of the finzi contini_ and there be not even time for a proper conclusion . micol story be finish and or at least as finish a it need to be and but what happen to georgio . his father just inform u that he leave . why can not we see him leave . we do not need an enormous explanation from him and but just a subtle scene and a be the film style and where he pack and talk to his mother maybe . surely he hasn not get micol out of his mind that quickly . i realize it be in his best interest to get the heck out of italy right away and but i can not believe he doesn not at least think for a moment whether or not he should do something on micol behalf . i be fine that he doesn not . i would bet that in the novel and this sort of scene appear . it should have also be in the film . i give the film an positive and mostly for the true to life pain it cause me concern the one side love .