{"id":2119,"date":"2013-04-11T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2013-04-23T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:26:37","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Life is Beautiful. Hmmm. Yes, and No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2545\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=2545\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2545\" title=\"Did we win the tank yet, Papa?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lifeis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lifeis.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lifeis-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened here&#8230; I wanted to honor Holocaust Remembrance with a movie that would still make for an enjoyable MovieNight, and I recalled finding <em>Life is Beautiful<\/em> quite entertaining and sweet when I first saw it during its general theatrical release. This one didn&#8217;t age very well (maybe the sugar content increased with age?), at least not for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, there were some touching scenes (the little boy was adorable), but overall I found it cloying&#8230; everything was just a bit too cute, and the coincidences too plentiful. Benigni&#8217;s comedic acting, replete with rouge-y clown-like make-up, was reminiscent of an annoying relative who can&#8217;t stop making jokes when they come for a holiday dinner.<\/p>\n<p>As for the portrayal of the Holocaust&#8230; it was pretty shallow, but ultimately I guess that Holocaust and MovieNight just don&#8217;t play well together. I guess I should respect that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118799\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened here&#8230; I wanted to honor Holocaust Remembrance with a movie that would still make for an enjoyable MovieNight, and I recalled finding Life is Beautiful quite entertaining and sweet when I first saw it during its general theatrical release. This one didn&#8217;t age very well (maybe the sugar content increased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life is Beautiful. Hmmm. Yes, and No.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}