Italian director Roberto Bernini greatly admired the proletarian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky once said, "Life is beautiful in any case." ”
In 1997, Roberto Bernini made the movie "Life is Beautiful" based on this sentence.
The film tells the story of a small person fighting against fate during World War II.
Two fathers and sons of Jewish descent were arrested in Nazi concentration camps, and their lives were in danger.
In order for his young son to live hopefully, the father did not hesitate to tell beautiful lies and created a super "game" in the concentration camp to accompany his son through the terrible concentration camp time.
In the end, the father was unable to get out of the "game", but his son was able to return to life under the sun.
When the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, the audience stood up with tears in their eyes and applauded for 12 minutes.
More than 20 years have passed, and it is still ranked 6th in the Douban movie TOP250, maintaining 9A god-level rating of 6, well received.
The fan's comment is very heartfelt: "If you don't know how to spend your rough life, you must take a look." ”
Wading through the long river of scars, everyone is their own ferryman.
Life is Beautiful in a unique way, telling us:
Even if a person lives in the gutter, he has the right to look up at the starry sky; Even in the most desperate circumstances, it can be invincible.
Suffering is the foreshadowing of the blossoming of flowers
Before the outbreak of World War II, Guido, who had a sense of humor, opened a bookstore in a small town in Italy. His wife, Dora, is an elementary school teacher, and her son, Joshua, is clever and cute.
A family of three, life would have been very happy. But the sudden war broke the original peace.
Overnight, shop windows in the town were plastered with warnings that "Jews and dogs are not allowed"; Jewish homes were often smashed, and even their white horses were painted green by the Nazis, with the insulting words "This is a Jewish horse."
The Nazi rule made the situation of the Jews worse day by day.
On Joshua's 5th birthday, Guido and Dora prepared sweet cakes, beautiful flowers, and a table of sumptuous food early in the morning to celebrate.
But when Dora picks up her mother and arrives at home, she finds that it is a mess, and Guido's father and son are nowhere to be found. It turned out that the two were captured by the Nazis and put in a concentration camp.
Dora, who had no Jewish ancestry, resisted to no avail and resolutely followed.
The camp was surrounded by a dense power grid and heavily guarded, and the crematorium was emitting heavy black smoke day and night, and the air was filled with oppressive terror.
The cells here are cramped, dirty, smelly, and airtight. Dressed in striped prison uniforms, with numb expressions and desperate faces, they go out mechanically every day to do heavy labor.
Guido, who was thin and weak, carried hundreds of pounds of iron with his bare hands, and did not dare to stop for a moment. If he was deemed to have lost his value as a coolie, he would be mercilessly shot to death on the spot.
In the eyes of the Nazis, the lives of these Jews were as cheap as ants; What measures their survival is "value".
The elderly and children there were forced to strip naked and rush to "take a bath" because they were unable to work, and were brutally killed by poison gas. Only Joshua escaped by hiding.
The harsh environment, the unbearable hunger, the fear of dying at any time, the loneliness of being away from her mother and the familiar environment, have long been beyond the scope of 5-year-old Joshua's ability.
Guido must be energetic in order to protect his son.
Haruki Murakami said: Suffering is the foreshadowing of the blooming of flowers, and the cold winter is the prelude to spring.
Life is beautiful after all, and suffering is only temporary.
No matter what darkness you are in, everything you experience in the present moment will eventually become a light that illuminates the way forward.
There is no hopeless situation,
Only for those who are desperate for their situation
From the moment he was caught on the train to the concentration camp, Guido secretly decided to be a shield and shield himself from all evils for his son.
He mysteriously tells Joshua that they managed to buy train tickets and participate in a big game with the people on the train.
In the game, the fierce Germans are the referees and decide who will score. Everyone who participates in the game will work hard to earn points, and whoever earns a perfect score of 1,000 points first will get the ultimate prize - a real tank.
His eloquent explanation made the naïve Joshua very excited. The big tank was the gift he wanted the most.
In order not to let the lies slip on, Guido, who knew nothing about German, risked his life to stand up and translate the rules of the concentration camp for the German army.
The Germans spoke viciously: "You must work well here; Whoever wants to escape has only a dead end; Don't ask any questions; Be unconditionally obedient to orders....”
Guido imitated the expressions and movements of the German army, translating those cold and strict rules into gameplay:
Now the game begins; Get a thousand points, and you have a big tank; There is a daily broadcast, and the ranking of points will be announced; The person with the lowest score will give him a stupid donkey brand...”
Everyone looked at each other blankly, but Joshua listened very seriously and looked excited. When he heard that disobedience would be punished, he also nervously covered his mouth.
Looking at his son's smiling face, Guido felt that everything he did was worth it. He guided Joshua into the game, little by little.
He happily pointed to the prison uniform and said that it was **, in exchange for points.
And no matter how hungry Joshua is, he never says it, because then he will be "deducted points".
But in the concentration camps, many evils could not be concealed. The ** of the German army continued, and there were fewer and fewer people in the cells.
Guido did not give up any hope, and increased his vigilance and nervous response every day, and turned the danger into a disaster in the thrilling step by step.
I've seen such a sentence:Every second you want to give up is a pinch.
On the road of life, what I am afraid of is not the difficulties that will block me, but the surrender of myself first. In a desperate situation, it is often oneself that defeats others.
No matter how desperate the situation is, as long as you don't give up, there will always be a time when the willows will bloom.
Wade through the long river of scars and be your own ferryman
Guido and his son are walking on thin ice, and his wife, Dora, is living in a women's prison.
Guido took every opportunity to convey the timely message that he and his son were well, encouraging her to stay strong.
As the Nazis approached defeat, the Germans prepared to retreat, pulling cartloads of prisoners from the concentration camps out, and for a while there was a burst of gunfire and chaos.
At the critical moment, Guido asked his son to hide in an iron box and said to him solemnly
It's the last day of the game. We've got 960 points and we're currently in the first place. If you hide in the box and don't be found until dawn, you'll get another 40 points, and the grand prize will be ours! ”
Joshua smiled and obediently hid in the iron box.
After settling his son, Guido disguised himself as a woman to find his wife, but was soon discovered by the Germans.
When he was held to the gun, Guido knew that this time he was really lucky, and even his life was not guaranteed.
He was scared, but he knew that his son was watching him and decided to lie to him one last time.
As he passed by the iron box where his son was hiding, he walked like a clown and squeezed his eyes at his son, as he had done when he was at home, indicating that he was participating in the game.
Joshua, who believed it to be true, also squeezed his eyes at him, indicating his understanding.
Joshua spent the darkest night hiding in an iron box. He didn't notice that a short burst of gunfire rang out shortly after Dad walked past his hideout.
After daybreak, Joshua heard no sound outside, crawled out of the iron box, and stood in the quiet courtyard of the concentration camp.
Facing the rising sun, he saw a real American tank, which was rumbling towards him.
He opened his mouth wide: his father didn't lie to him, they really won that game!
That scene brought tears to people's eyes.
Guido lost his life, but gave his wife and children the courage and opportunity to live.
In the online drama "Sito", the heroine has a classic line: "Life is like a long river, there are thousands of ferries, and only the ferry is the real crossing." ”
In the sea of life, heroes may not appear when we need them, we can only bravely wade through the long river of scars and be our own ferrymen.
I believe that if you grit your teeth and survive the darkness, luck will come against the light.
The movie "Beautiful Life" hides pathos in humor and bursts out of strength. It makes the audience realize from laughter and tears that even if there are dark times in life, it will eventually become better under the guidance of hope.
Director Roberto Bernini said:
Take disaster as a game, conquer everything with a smile, nothing to be afraid of, as long as your lover is still there, happiness and joy will never leave you.This is also the attitude he brings to our life through movies.
Life will not be smooth sailing, Mr. Yang Jiang said: "There is no one in this world who is not injured, the world is suffering, only self-crossing." ”
The attitude you use to face suffering will give life meaning.
Only by facing optimism and positivity, and finding the candle of hope in despair, can we use a faint light to fight against every inch of barrenness.
Tell yourself that after the flood, beasts, jungle thorns, there will eventually be apricot blossoms and spring rain on the broad road.