i be the type of person that stay away from watch preview and read any form of critique before enter a cinema . the only thing i know about this film be that roberto benigni and italy jerry lewis and write and direct and act in it . the first half of the film blow me away . it be very funny and life be beautiful . then out of nowhere jew be persecute and people get send to concentration camp and mr benigni become annoy . i do not know who i want to slap out first and him or his cutesy little son who never get dirty inside a suppose harsh and un human environment of a concentration camp . for that fact and his wife still look a little too pretty to me with that heavy make up and which do not resemble any sedimentary cosmetic produce by mother earth . many historical question must be raise when deal with something so historical such a a holocaust . where be the over crowding . why be everyone so clean . why do everyone look like they eat three square meal a day . why be the german portray a if they come from an episode of hogan hero . on and on . if anyone notice and this film rely on two major set where at least 80 % of action occur . the first half be set around the town square . then to make an allegory of the second half and we have the concentration camp square . forget other smart semiotics such a analogy and metaphor to answer the cheapness and un imaginable use of location question . schindlers list come to mind a to what this film have want to be . do we have to applaud this film because it be a foreign film ( read represent art house cinema ) or do we praise the film for deal with the holocaust issue . i say foreign film maker make a many bad film and or even more and than the one that come out of hollywood . and this life be beautifully stupid .