this movie be not a good movie at all . i understand the story be about a family and not the war but how can people get past the unrealistic point of the war this movie portray . the carelessness of benigni character action in the movie would have kill ton of people . the first hour of the movie be terribly bore i be wait for the movie to end . the second part be well but i could not get past how unrealistic this movie be . i have see many foreign film from many country and movie deal with war and this be one of the bad one i have ever see . one example of a movie that deal with a boy try to survive in a camp and the war be realistic be empire of the sun . another thing i do not like about the film be the beginning . how perverted benigni be act with the little girl . i think i be the only one but talk to people that love the movie and they also have the same uneasy feeling . i do not think this movie deserve the status it have get .