History and Memory in Life is Beautiful

Right away when reading this text by Scott Ryan, I could tell that he was writing to us to prove that no matter how evil and bad things may get in life, happiness and laughter can overcome any amount of evil. Referring to the character Guido from Life is Beautiful, we are presented with ways that Guido himself showed evil no mercy. It seems to me that Guido never really took anything too seriously. This way, letting the better aspects of like shine brighter than the ugly. This was especially expressed when Guido and his family were send on a train to an unnamed death camp. Although Guido knew for the most part that what they were about to have to overcome was not easy, he was not about to let his son see. It could be said that perhaps that was not the smartest thing to do, because of the atmosphere of the train ride, and especially after arriving to the camp, was no "surprise for his birthday", like Guido had told Joshua when they first arrived to the camp. Not to mention other victims at theses camps were telling Joshua exactly what was going on.
Scott Ryan suggests in this passage that aside from the fact that these Nazis are practically dehumanizing the Jew's, there is still the connection that we are all human that some of the Nazis can't overcome. "Guido’s innocent fantasies highlight the far-reaching mendacity of the Nazi regime: that they hid their intentions from their captives and some may say from themselves".(Ryan Scott) No matter how bad things can get, there will always be the obvious that we are all human and equal in more ways than we can imagine. Family will overcome individuality any day in my opinion. No matter what little amount of good Guido may see in any situation, there is no doubt that without his family present in the short time they had together, Guido would have approached his situation a lot differently. Perhaps with more fear. It is amazing what family can do to someone. The presence of a family member to me, can make any situation better in an instant.
It is pretty straightforward what Scott is trying to get across in his text. "While the film can be accused of simplifying historical events into a fight between good and evil, it nevertheless reaffirms the protective sanctuary of imagination as it was necessitated and tested by the holocaust. It is ultimately a parable about the capacity for human creativity to transcend life’s banalities and our entrapment in historical circumstance". (Ryan, Scott) These feelings explained by Scott Ryan are nothing of a surprise. It is not unusual in anyway how he feels about the movie. Or how he thinks although the movie was not to inform us about the holocaust, but to show us that happiness and laughter can overcome any evil. I don't think that many people could really argue with that. Personally I agree with mostly if not all, of the things Scott talks about in his text.