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I'm a man. Normally never cry. I didn't even cry when my parents divorced. I kept back the tears at deaths and funerals of friends and relatives. But at the end of this movie I cried my eyes out. For me it was all about parental love and the will to protect your children from the evil of adults. Best movie ever made. I realize that many people will find Roberto Begnini extremely annoying, the storyline ridiculous and the filming typically chaotic Italian style, but I don't care. Neither do I understand the comments about it being unethical of doing 'comedy' in a concentration camp. It is not a movie about that. It is about the beauty of unconditional, parental love and therefore everybody must see it. Like I said, the best movie ever, ever made!

I saw this movie a couple of years ago and thought it was brilliant!Tried to rent it again, but to no avail. A shame, while the movie is so good. Although the subject is extremely tragic (grim warfare, death, the hopeless inability of the international community and the eternal arrogance of the French),the tone of the film is relatively light and has a lot of comedy in it. The movie shows that even in such bad times, people remain people with all their good and bad sides, who are able to love, laugh, hate, and be selfish or extremely human. Therefore it bothers me that the movie, although it won several prizes, including an academy award, is so much ignored, for i think that it is absolutely suitable for a larger public, if the right buzz was created. I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 was a hit. Is it because people were sick about the Balkan situation?

I saw the film last night on TV, but have been wanting to rent it for the last 5 years, but never did. The story reminded me a bit of Rainman, but being a Dogma movie gave it it's special charm.Especially the isolation of the location on an island and the harshness of living on such an isolated farm were brought over very well by the dogma principle of using only natural light. I thought the acting of Iben Hjejle was fantastic as the prostitute who is on a crossroad in her life and has to find out which road to take. The other characters (except for Kresten's wife)are also played very believable. The only thing that bothers me is the overacting. Dogma pretends to be as close to reality as possible, but i cannot believe that in Denmark, when there is a small disagreement, everybody starts to scream at each other in such an overdone way. Still it remains a good, entertaining movie, so watch it!!