Life Is Beautiful and Night

When watching the movie Life is Beautiful and Night, I was able to see some similarities between the two. For both the film and book, there was a father-to-son bond. In the movie there was Guido and Joshua, and in the book it was Elie and Shlomo. In both the book and film unfortunately the father dies. In the book and film we can see their journey in the concentration camp. We can see what they have to go through from day to day. We can see what happens to the two main characters from both the movie and the book in the end.

There were also some differences between the film Life is Beautiful and the book Night, when I was watching the film. Throughout the film, Guido tries to make the situation playful by saying that it is all part of a game. Guido focuses on not making Joshua know what is really happening. In Night, Elie knows what is going on and he explains his experience. Both Elie and his father don't really expect anything too happen, they are focus on to survive. In the film we are able to see what happens to Dora(the mother of Joshua) since she has to go to the facility where only women are allowed. The book doesn't let us see what happens to Elie's mother or sisters since the book is about his experience. 

The film and book both have different moods at times. The personality of the main characters make the mood be different. The mood in the film is humorous because of the carisma of Guido and his perseverance to make Dora fall in love with him and when in the camp he makes sure that Joshua doesn't see that reality of where they are. The film is full of humor because of Guido's personality throughout the film. The mood in the book is more hopeless like. We can see how Elie struggles with his faith in God, unlike in the beginning how we can see how he is pious. 

In the film, life is shown to be beautiful. The humor of Guido throughout the whole film shows how much he tires to make a bad situation into something good. In the beginning of the film we can see how the charisma of Guido pays off when Dora falls in love with him and have a son. We are able to see how even through Dora wasn't suppose to go to the concentration camp, she chose to stop the train and go on so she could be with Guido and Joshua. There are many instances where we can see how Guido struggling to keep his son safe, everything he did in the concentration camp was to keep Joshua safe. In the end of the film when Joshua is picked up from a military tank, when in the tank he see his mother walking wit the other survivors and runs off to see her. Joshua says how they won the game since the prize would be a brand new tank, his father Guido told him. Guido's plan had worked, in the end Joshua didn't know what was actually happening.