Life is Beautiful HW

Life is beautiful, even though it is on a dark topic, is an engaging story, bringing out the dark side of the holocaust, but doing it in such a way that the audience wants to see what will happen next, with a bit of humour. Life is Beautiful is an engaging story because of what Guido did/does and why he does it to save his kid, Joshua, and find his wife, Dora.

Guido is a father and a husband to his son Joshua, and his wife Dora. He had a life back in Italy running a book store with his son. Throughout the movie, the audience begins to see what Guido is like, how he does things and why he does them. We get to know Guido more and more as the story progresses, the more we begin to like Guido the way he is. Smart, funny, caring, and will do anything to get what he wants, in this case, Dora. Once they have a kid, Joshua, you can see how Guido changes, from standing up and talking, he gets down low with Joshua and speaks in a gentle tone, not wanting to shout at him or speak down to him, but so they are both equal .

You can start to see this more clearly once they get taken to the concentration camp with the Germans. When Joshua starts asking questions, Guido got down and even though he lied, it was for Joshua's own safety. Throughout the concentration camp, Guido makes up a game about how they need points and by staying hidden, they are earning those points. So when all the kids go missing, Guido explains that they are all hiding. To prove that they are, Guido sneaks Joshua out when he is the waiter for the German party, and shows Joshua the kids that are playing the game of hide and seek. And when Joshua see's them, you can tell that he had believed Guido was right, that they are hiding. Guido has only done what he has so he can keep the people he loves safe from harm, even if it means his putting his life on the risk. this is what Ii find engaging, the way Guido show kindness to the people around him, good or bad, and how he always has one goal in his sight, but avoids it if it means keeping the people he loves safe. It makes the viewer wanting to see what happens next, to see how Guido will over come the challenge at hand and what he would have done to keep people safe.

Finally, you can see how Guido would risk his life to save his son, Joshua, in the end, when he hides him in the steal box. He says to Joshua if he doesn't come back, if he was "caught" by the guards, to only come out when know one else is around. And once he does get caught, and see's Joshua staring at him from the box, he does a march that makes Joshua laugh, to convince him that he was caught in the game and that he wasn't about to die and that Joshua had to still hide since everyone was looking for him. Guido sacrificed his own life looking for Dora and trying to save his son, and in the end he did. And even though he died for it, it was his own decision to go out there and find Dora, and to escape with both of them, and that is what I found the most engaging, for even though capture was highly possible, he still went out for the people he loved.

So in conclusion, Guido's love for friends and family, and what he would do for them in there time of need is what i think engages the audience to keep on watching to find out what happens next.