Frankl-y Speaking

This lesson of the holocaust and man's search for meaning was really hard. I mean you can see the devastation from the war and the 2 men's outlook on it. I really want to talk about Life is Beautiful. This may just be me but it could be others too, but Life is Beautiful had a bigger impact on me than Man's search for meaning. I guess it would be that I saw Guido develop and in a way I sort of got to know him. 

At the beginning of the movie, or at least towards the beginning, I saw it more as a three stooges kind of comedy where it would be like physical and Guido would get himself into sticky situations and use his wit to get himself out. I saw that his antics would be very clever and very quick thinking and he would use this even later inside of the camp. 

He picks up his princess and he starts a family, very sweet loving. They actually could have ended the move at the scene where his son, who's name escapes me, is running out of the garden, and it would have been a great comedy and I would have accepted the happy ending, but as it goes on I start to see all the hate and discrimination he gets for being a Jew and all the precautions he takes to keep his son's eyes blind from this. Let's move on past the trains and they are already inside the camp. What keeps him motivated throughout the camp, like man's search for meaning, the thought of his wife. At every chance he gets, he tries to call out for her or play the music from the opera they went to. Throughout his stay he continues to keep his son's eyes innocent. This would be the best way to keep his boy from being depressed or scared, he answers all his questions with 'the game' he comes up with. He had it, he would have made it too. I guess for us to see the real horrible side of the holocaust our protagonist had to die. It was a great story overall and very well told.