美麗人生 (意大利電影)

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zh-cn:美丽人生;zh-tw:美麗人生;zh-hk:一個快樂的傳說

美麗人生 La vita è bella
Image:Vitaebella.jpg original movie poster
導演	羅貝托·貝尼尼
監製	Gianluigi Braschi, John M. Davis, Elda Ferri
編劇	羅貝托·貝尼尼, Vincenzo Cerami
演出	羅貝托·貝尼尼, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano
發行公司	米拉麥克斯影業 (美國)
上映日期	1997年12月20日 1998年10月23日 1998年11月6日 1998年12月26日 1999年12月2日 1999年3月5日
片長	116 分鐘
語言	意大利語, 德語, 英語
IMDb zh-cn:信息;zh-tw:資訊（英語）

《美麗人生》（La vita è bella）是一部1997年的意大利電影，由導演羅貝托·貝尼尼自編自演，榮獲奧斯卡最佳外語片頭銜及多個國際大奬。電影講述意大利一對猶太父子被送進納粹集中營，父親Guido Orefice（導演羅貝托·貝尼尼飾）不忍年僅五歲的兒子飽受驚恐，利用自己豐富的想象力扯謊說他們正身處一個遊戲當中，必須接受集中營中種種規距以換得分數贏取最後大奬。影片笑中有淚，將一個大時代小人物的故事，轉化為一個扣人心弦的悲喜劇。

目录 1 Title 2 Plot 3 Controversy 4 Awards 5 See also 6 External links

[编辑] Title

The title derives from Leon Trotsky's last testament;^{[來源請求]} while in exile in Mexico, knowing he was soon to be assassinated by Stalin's agents, Trotsky saw his wife in the garden and wrote:

"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."

[编辑] Plot

The first half of the movie is a whimsical, romantic comedy and often slapstick. Guido, a young Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo where he sets up a bookstore. Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances Dora (Italian, but not Jewish), whom he steals – at her engagement – from her rude and loud fiancé. Several years pass, in which Guido and Dora have a son, Giosuè (written Joshua in the English subtitles).

In the second half of the movie, Guido, his uncle, and Giosuè are taken to a concentration camp on Giosuè's birthday. Not wanting to leave her family, Dora asks to be allowed to join them and is permitted to do so. In an attempt at keeping up Giosuè's spirits, Guido convinces him that the camp is just a game – a game in which the first person to get a thousand points wins a tank. He convinces Giosuè that the camp guards are mean because they want the tank for themselves, that all the other children are hiding in order to win the game, and puts off every attempt of Giosuè's ending the game and returning home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank. Despite being surrounded by rampant death and disease, Giosuè doesn't question this fiction both because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.

Guido maintains this story right until the end, when – in the chaos caused by the American advance drawing near – he tells his son to stay in a mailbox until everybody has left, this being the final test before the tank is his. After trying to warn Dora that the trucks go to the gas chambers, Guido is caught, taken away, and shot, but not after making his son laugh one last time. Giosuè manages to survive, and thinks he's won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the camp, and is reunited with his mother.

The movie includes a scene of the operetta Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) with its melody "Barcarola".

[编辑] Controversy

The decision to make a comedy set in a concentration camp was inevitably controversial. Benigni was publicly praised by Jewish groups for embracing and publicizing the Holocaust.^{[來源請求]} Others praised him for his daring and creative skill in successfully making a sensitive comedy about the tragedy,^{[來源請求]} an artistic challenge that even 查理·卓別林 admitted he would not have attempted with The Great Dictator had he known the full horrors committed in Nazi Germany.^{[來源請求]}

However, Benigni was criticized by some for trivializing the Holocaust as sort of a childish game (even though in the movie the "game" was invented to keep Giosuè from being too exposed to the horrors he is living through).^{[來源請求]} One of the principal critics is Israeli screenwriter Kobi Niv in his book Life is Beautiful, But Not for Jews (2003).

[编辑] Awards

The movie made its worldwide release at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury. It then went on to win Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Foreign Language Film. Benigni won Best Actor for his role. The film was additionally nominated for Academy Awards for Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay, and is ranked 82nd on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 rated films as of November 2006. It also won the César Award for Best Foreign Film in 1999.

[编辑] See also

• The Day the Clown Cried (1972), an unfinished film by Jerry Lewis
• Train de Vie by Radu Mihaileanu

[编辑] External links

• 《Life Is Beautiful》在互联网电影数据库（IMDb）
• Life is Beautiful at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list

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