The mild and yet addictive tunes from the movie “Life is Beautiful” theme is playing continuously. And all I can think about is, how beautiful life indeed is!
Watched the movie yesterday night and I cannot recollect any other movie that has been done so beautifully well. The passion for life portrayed by Roberto Benigni, his compelling humor and the delicate mix of fragility of life’s situations confronted with strong yet playful outlook is very refreshing!
Many sequences in the movie resonated with what I believe in. The “Buongiorno Principessa”****(Good Morning Princess!) is one such line. Women should be treated like Princess. For everything that they have to endure in life – the pain and pleasure of creating, nurturing and protecting life itself, innumerable sacrifices they make to hold families together, they are in fact the epitome of everything that “Life” signifies. The women in all our lives are special. There is no need for a man to assert his dominance in a family. In fact, women are the bosses and it is better left that way. Such families will have happier days.
Any game will have a winning and loosing side. Both are equally important – there is no game otherwise. Nobody can win or loose always. In fact, it is never about winning or loosing, but actually playing and having fun. And apply that to the game of life – it becomes so simple. The second half of the movie portrays this beautifully.
I especially love the last scene. Even though Guido knows that he is about to die, his last act is to make his son laugh and march comically to his death. It is about calmly accepting Life as is, and being cheerful always. It is about laughing and making others laugh.
And conveying all these, the magical and marvelous sound tracks by Nicola Piovani is a festival to ears. The theme track of the movie is just brilliant. It is not something that can run in the background, and you can continue to concentrate on your work. If you listen a little deeper, you will be able to correlate every single note of the song to different emotions experienced in the movie. But on the downside, it wont let you concentrate fully on your work. I think this incoherent blog is a definite proof of what I am trying to tell. But then again, any great music is supposed to absorb you totally into it. So – stopping this rant right here. -- This is a simple story… but not an easy one to tell.