only the naive and ignorant will find this film charm . those who know anything about the holocaust will see it for what it be a lie that desecrate the memory of six million dead . under the nazi and six million jew die for no other reason than that they be jewish . this invest the fact of their jewishness with transcendent importance . in life be beautiful and however and roberto benigni character guido be jewish only because the film announces that he be . his jewishness have no other significance while it be not the affirmation of anything while it be a manipulative plot device . guido goodness be not attribute to his be jewish that be something to be dispense with quickly and a if it be an embarrassment . and so benigni end up treat the jew very little differently than the nazi . for one thing and he shamefully misrepresent the reality of the nazis konzentrationlagers . a jew would have be murder for any one of the act of defiance that guido get away with . benigni film turn the real danger and real violence and real death of the holocaust into something like a roadrunner cartoon in which wile e. coyote never really suffers or dy . but this be a lie represent under the nazi and the jew suffer and die . they do not get away with carefree act of defiance . what be more and the mass of jew in the camp in which guido and his son be imprison be treat a nothing more than the faceless and nameless background to benigni disgust clown . they be give no more individuation no more personhood and uniqueness than they be by the nazis themselves . life be beautiful be an obscene exploitation of enormity and sorrow .