Life is Beautiful

The film, "Life is Beautiful" is a perfect example of how you can mix tradegy and comedy to enhance the drama of the film. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this film due to the fact that it does have comedy even though it is meant to be a movie about the holocaust, but I think that the comedy used was in no way satirical, but was used to enhance the tradegy in the film. With Guido's character, he was the main source of comedy for the film. He was percieved by the audience as a very kind, supportive, theatrical, and loving father and husband, so his death at the end of the movie was even more tragic because of how much the audience had already connected with his character. There are many movies out there about the holocaust that have been turned into comedy that are much "worse" than this film. For example, "The Producers," and "Inglorious Bastards" are both movies that take the holocaust and make it funny, but not in a mocking way towards the people that were affacted. The comedy used in movies like this are almost always making a mockery of Hilter and the Nazi Party. An argument could be made that this was a way of coping from the tradgey that occured.