The Holocaust, Nothing Can Ever Amount

   The movie shown to the whole class today was the 1997 film, Life is Beautiful. This was a movie that gives a glimps of how the holocaust was, this was a very serious film. Although the film had somewhat of a fairytale ending, which isn't what all people got when they were involved with the holocaust, this was a very insightful and in depth film about the happenings of the Holocaust.Yes this was a movie, so many things are different, dramatic, or maybe there were even some things were taken out that would be too real to be put into a film like this. Things that would be considered the same from the movie and based off of what I read is how casual of a conversation the Aryan superiority is. Or was, so they thought. There is a scene in the movie where a woman and a man are causally having a conversation at a dinner table, during their conversation the topic of the Aryan race comes up. The two proceed to talk about how their race is the superior to any other, the two people have this mind set where talking down on other races is a normal. It's mindsets like these that slowly made the events of the Holocaust seem normal for the people involved. This was something that I previously wondered about, how could people talk this was about other people so nonchalantly? I personally think that showing people's attitude in a movie, is a great was to show people how thinks used to be, and how people used to think.
     Aside from things in the film that were very similar, there were things that were also different. The real people involved and hurt in the holocaust were beaten, tortured, and starved. Nobody of authority in the camp was in favor of the Jewish people so, all of the people were very vulnerable to being mistreated. There wasn't much people in the camp that looked as healthy as the actors in the movie. This is the sad truth, the people   Couldn't possibly have looked the way that the people in the actual holocaust looked, and have been healthy enough to act.  Another thing that, sadly, would it be a stool in the Holocaust is the fairytale ending that this had. The movie made it seem that all of the  action of affection that the man showed toward his wife while being held prisoner was an easy thing to do, but in actuality the man would have been beaten and killed for doing such things. And in the movie the mom and the son both survived to live and be happy afterwards, but the boy went throughout life in the camp with ease. In the actual holocaust that wouldn't have been true, I'm sure he was just as painful for the children as it was for the adults, emotionally and physically.
      The beginning of the movie was very lighthearted and funny, but towards the middle it started to become sad. The parts when it became said was the parts of the movie involving the Holocaust, but even during the scenes of the holocaust there were parts that were lighthearted and  could have made a viewer smile. Scene in the movie that could have been like these are times during bonding between the son and the father, times when the father wanted to make it known to his wife that he was alive, and times when the son was just being a kid. I'm guessing not too many of these times or events could have taken place within the gates and walls of concentration camps during the holocaust. This is why the moods of the movie and events of the actual holocaust differed.  Yes, there were times in the movie that made you see how people of the holocaust where affected very negatively and how they could've hurt them, emotionally and physically,  and that's what I think so many people like this movie. It's because you get a good look into life of the Holocaust, but you know it's a movie and you still get a laugh and fairytale ending out of it.
      Before I saw the movie I knew that Jewish people were kept in concentration camps and we're mistreated. I knew this before I had even stepped foot into the Holocaust Museum. But, being in the Holocaust Museum and seeing pictures and hearing stories about what went on with in the walls and gates of the concentration camps made everything very real. Everything  I took away from the museum, mentally, became more real than it was before. It was very terrifying for me to think about and keep this image in my head, it got even worse once I saw actors take out the actions of what went on in the camps. Seeing it actually happen is something that never came to my mind when it comes to thinking about the Holocaust, it never occurred to me that I could watch a movie and see the cruelty. Although, in my head, I know that no one could ever do, act, or have the same terrifying experiences that people Jewish people had within the walls of concentration camps during the holocaust.
      The movie was very sad and morbid, made very solid point across. Therefore the title fits, life is beautiful. One of the ways that the movie shows that life is beautiful, is when dad goes on the intercom, and risks his life, to speak on the intercom so that his wife can hear his voice and know that he and his son were alive and well. This little thing that the husband did, which wasn't really a little at all because he was risking his life, mad a huge difference yo the woman. Just hearing his voice made the woman smile and  cry happy tears. Her reaction was solely because she knew that her family was okay, even with everything she had been through just the thought of knowing that they were alive meant the world to her. And that's saying a lot because the movie showed how much the poor woman was worked and how much the woman work and how difficult her conditions were.  But for those couple of seconds her mood has totally changed.
       Another point in the movie that shows that life is beautiful is when the mother and the son are reunited at the end of the movie. The father had worked and gave everything he could to the son to keep him alive and healthy throughout his life at the concentration camp, he worked to his death to keep  his little boy life.  He even lied to his own son to keep his sons mental health at a point where the boy would be happy, even though his own father in the people that were around him every day weren't, at all. This shows that life is beautiful because the man gave his own, he devoted it to making sure that his son survived. And it all was appreciated  because the woman got to see her son after being worked and starved, it was like seeing her son had made everything better. I can also imagine that to the son, seeing his mother for the first time, in a long time, meant the world to him. So life is a beautiful thing because what you do with yours can determine how others live their's.
       To sum up the whole holocaust unit worked on, the Holocaust was a very terrible event that happened to a certain group of people just because of one thing that related them all. It led to a very large and terrible genocide that should never be repeated.  We should all learn from the Holocaust and learn about it, whether it's from going to museums that are dedicated to it, or watching a movie that exposes you to the experiences of it. The holocaust made a difference and affected us all.  Everyone should be exposed to this knowledge and look back at it and know the damage that was done. Maybe if everyone did that, it would never happen again. If it happened, it would be for the better.