Life is beautiful as to make it smart as everything depends on your attitude.

La Vita è bella (1997) directed by Roberto Benigni.

"Life is beautiful", is a film about that brief period of Nazi rule in Italy due to which many ordinary Jewish people had to endure enormous hardships. Although it is a film about Nazism, it is quite different from other films of the Nazi film genre like Schindler's list. It is more of a film about comic romance, laughter, optimism and how to keep one's sanity intact when one finds oneself in a difficult close to death kind of situation. This film ran into trouble as many leading filmmakers protested against what they called "making mockery of a serious issue like holocaust". According to Godard it is hard to believe that life could have been beautiful for anyone in a concentration camp. Life is beautiful is divided into 3 parts: carefree life, period of hardships and a harmless game with a kid. Roberto Benigni and his wife Nicoletta Braschi excel in all these parts. It is the star kid Giorgio Cantarini who shines in the last part. In a way,it can be said that the film succeeds because of his innocent behavior with which he carries himself through his entire stay with his father.