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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
★ 8.4 · 13,942 ratings on TMDB
An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
DirectorRoberto Benigni
The emergence reading
Life Is Beautiful keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceIT
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
