La Vita e bella (Life is beautiful) enhanced + Italian or English dual audio & French subs too

Great picture and sound quality. Widescreen formatted too. Chosse to view with Italian

or English Audio. Embedded subtitle options include English or French.



Note: I never watch a dubbed version of a movie when the original version is

available with English subtitles. You miss out on a great deal of the flavour

and affect and in this respect you lose a lot in the translation with a dubbed

approach. This movie is called "La Vita e bella/Life is beautiful" in the

combined Italian/English version and that is how I recommend you purchase it

as I can tell you that they have done a beautiful job with the English audio

too in this great movie performance.



This is a movie with a lot of potential to teach. It teaches the value of

honesty as a way of life in that this can be fully retained when a man is

simply acting in a humorous spirit to make life seem more bearable and to spare

children an ugly reality that surrounds them. Yet there is a spirit that

continues in Benigni's character as a man who'd like to stay sane honestly

enough that he will conjure up a version of events to keep his audience with

him and in good humour. Such characters are always trying for as much real

honesty as the situation will allow however they have learned a defensive

coping mechanism to telling it like it is. And in this respect perhaps his son

at the end has a better view of the world than is justified however fact is

that he is being lied to by a man who thinks he is being a better father this

way. Its a great story that touches on the travesty and the tragedy of the

holocaust, as Italian jews were not spared this fate although many were

harbored by good Italians who could not go along with Hitler's madness in this

respect.



Enjoy! Grazie, especially for all who seed, I'm grateful!



Michael Rizzo Chessman

review posted at moviesbyrizzo.info



We will try to have other subtitles posted for you as they become available

too in SRT format, especially.