While I was watching the movie “Life is Beautiful” , I made many connections with the book “Night”. When the movie started everything was calm and normal, Guido had a job and was in love with Dora. In the beginning of the book, Ellie said how he lived in sighet and that he used to study with his mentor. When Guido and his family were put on the train it reminded me of when Ellie was put on the train, and how many families were separated. This was very sad because the Jews had no idea where they were going, the people that were optimistic and full of hope thought they were going someplace better. When the train stopped I think Guido and his family were at Auschwitz, just like Ellie. Then the people were split into different lines and taken to a different part of the camp (the old were taken to the gas chambers). When the Jews were taken to their barrack, a Nazi came and told them what was gonna happen. Guido was taken to get a medical inspection, just like Ellie, and they were checking their mouths. Another connection I made was when Guido was killed and his son survived at the end because in “Night”, Elie’s dad was also killed but he survived.
The book “Night” and “Life is Beautiful” have many similarities and differences. In the movie, the main character is a man named Guido. Guido is an Italian Jew that had a wife named Dora, and a child named Joshua. The movie has humour, suspense, and the mood is not as depressing as the book. When Guido was at the camp he had to do hard work, he also had to protect his kid by hiding him. Guido told his kid, Joshua, that they were playing a game and if they got 1,000 point they would win a tank. Joshua was little, and he believed his father. At the end of the movie, Guido dies, but his son and wife Dora survive. Guido was hopeful till the end, he thought he was going to survive and everything would go back to normal. In “Night” the main character is Ellie (the book is in his perspective, and it's a real story), he lived in Sighet, and studied with his mentor because he was pious. In the memoir, Ellie is very detailed and explicit. When he got to the camp he said, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes... children thrown into the flames.” Ellie was very graphic in his memoir because he wants people to know what happened. The mood of the memoir was sad and full of melancholy. Ellie lost all hope, he lost his family and everything he had. Both pieces show suffering death, hope, family, and survival. Ellie and Guido had a family, they were separated when they got to the camps. Guido’s uncle, Tio Leo, was sent to the gas chamber, just like Ellie’s mom and sister. They both loved their families very much, and they both suffered of starvation and felt weary. They did their best to survive in the camp, Ellie survived and told his story, Guido died but his son told his story.
The movie’s perspective is in 3rd person point of view (3rd person omniscient). If the story was in 1st point of view, the movie would be more suspenseful and the mood wouldn't be as joyful as it seems. If it was in Guido’s perspective (1st point of view) then we would of seen all the work he did, all the things he felt and thought. This would of changed the movie completely because it would of been more detailed like the book. If the movie was in Tio Leo’s perspective, than we would've known his concerns, and we would of seen what happened in the gas chamber. If the movie was in Dora’s perspective, than the movie wouldn't be as interesting because the woman didn't do hard labor like the man, and we wouldn't know what was going on with the kid Joshua.
In the movie, life was shown as beautiful because it showed love and hope. In “Life is beautiful” we see how Guido and Dora met, it was very romantic and it was like a fairytale. Dora and Guido ended up falling in love and they got married, they had a child named Joshua. Guido opened the bookstore he had always wanted, and he took care of Joshua. When they were being taken to the camps, Guido told Joshua it was a game. He protected his child, and he was shown as a really good father. In the camp he used the speaker to send a message to his wife. He also played a song he and his wife knew, he did this to give her hope. At the end when the Nazi was taking him to the back of a building, he did eye contact with Joshua and he acted like nothing bad was going on. Unfortunately, Guido was killed when he tried looking for Dora, but he saved his son.
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