Life Is Beautiful Netflix Australia

[Lisa Nevilles]

Threatsof torture, hangings, and being murdered in gas chambers are discussed, and those who understand the Holocaust will get the gravity of these threats. Occasional bloody images are visible. Guns (rifles, pistols, machine guns) are visible; gunshots are audible. Tanks are visible. A major character dies.

Parents need to know that the award-winning Italian import Life Is Beautiful is set during the Holocaust, and features some very difficult themes, including war, fear, and the loss of a parent. There are clear references to the atrocities being committed, but most of the focus is on the humorous efforts of a father to shelter his son from them. Drinking (wine, champagne) is visible in social settings; references are made to drunkenness. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

An Oscar-winner for Best Actor and Best Foreign Film, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL is a fable is about a father's love for his wife and son in the midst of the Holocaust. Writer/director Roberto Benigni stars as a Chaplinesque character who charms a beautiful teacher by creating a world of gentle magic around them. But then Benigni and his wife and child are sent to a concentration camp. To protect his son's life, he teaches him to hide from the guards during the day. To protect his son's heart, he constructs an elaborate fantasy that they are participating in a very difficult contest to win the ultimate prize, a real tank. And his son finds that this make sense, and he goes along with it.

This magnificent film gives us a glimpse of the Holocaust, but it is really about love, and the indomitability of humanity even in the midst of inhumanity. Life Is Beautiful inspired a lot of controversy from people who said that it was an inaccurate portrayal of the Holocaust, and that it was wrong to set a comedy, even a gentle bittersweet one, in a concentration camp. But the movie is never less than respectful of the suffering during the Holocaust, and of the impossibility of any kind of real portrayal of that experience. Even Schindler's List is not a portrayal of the Holocaust. That experience is fundamentally incomprehensible. The best we can hope for from art is that it gives us glimpses.

We often see in life and in movies that people react to extreme adversity by magnifying whatever sense of control they have left -- think of Mrs. Van Dam's focus on her coat in The Diary of Anne Frank, absurd in light of the fact that they never go outside, so she has no real need for a coat, but important because somehow she has chosen the coat as a place to locate her sense of herself as not having lost everything. In Life is Beautiful, the father focuses on his special talent for creating a feeling of magic to protect his son from the worst reality of the Holocaust, the sense of utter betrayal. Very importantly, he gives his son a sense of control, by letting him think that he has made the choice to participate in the contest. And knowing that he has kept his child's faith intact gives him a sense of control, and purpose, that keeps him going.

Georgie, this documentary is so full of emotion. It's an incredibly personal snapshot of your life, and you've had to be in the public eye for so much of your life. But what is it like for you to have your story out there for the entire world?

It's a whole mix of emotions. So often my story has been told, but it's been edited by other people. It's sort of their lens on my life. This is the first time that the power has been in my hands. In that sense, I feel really empowered releasing this documentary.

But you know, at the same time, it's incredibly personal. I'm a rather private person. It's also kind of weird to think that there are people out there who can access this very personal snapshot of my life on Netflix.

We just started filming and building a relationship and getting to know each other. And together, I suppose, went on this collaborative journey where eventually emerged a very clear path of the kind of story that needed to be told.

Georgie, there are these wonderful clips that you just started talking about, you and your dad having a conversation. You're quite young, but the film ends with you as an adult woman. How would you describe that journey from where you were as a little girl to where you are now?

But at the end of the day, I consider myself to have had a very lucky childhood and a very happy childhood. I have a family who loves me and supports me. I have a roof over my head and I have really beautiful memories with family and friends. I feel like my childhood had the really beautiful highs and the really difficult lows.

Georgie, you've spent so much of your life fighting for transgender rights, safety, equality. And right now in the world, all over the world, there are places where transgender rights are under attack. What is it like for you to see that?

But what I also know is that hate and vitriol and fear can't win because there are people like me who are telling their stories. We're living proof that that fear is unfounded and that we do not pose a threat to people.

Georgie, on the documentary's website, people are encouraged to have watch parties, and there's even a discussion guide to help viewers along. What is it that you're hoping people will learn?

I really hope people see that beautiful family dynamic in the film and realize how vitally important it is that trans people are supported and uplifted by their families, and supported and listened to by the medical field and by the wider community. That support and that empathy gives us agency over our lives.

And for trans people, I hope they see and feel the hope in this story. So often the trans stories that are out there are really depressing or, you know, aren't for us because there's so much conversation and discourse about our lives and we're not a part of that discourse.

Andrea Waling does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Insatiable tells the story of Patty (Debbie Ryan), an overweight teen who has spent her life being relentlessly bullied. After an altercation that causes Patty to have her jaw wired shut for three months, Patty loses the weight, becomes beautiful and vows to seek revenge on those who have hurt her, with the help of Bob Armstrong (Dallas Roberts), her lawyer and beauty pageant coach.

As a plus-size, queer cis-woman living with binge-eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), I felt the show provides a clever commentary on issues of disordered eating and body image, gender and sexuality, and representing female pleasure.

These scenes are confronting and hit too close to home. They are also realistic for some with lived experiences of binge-eating or compulsive overeating and BDD. They illustrate a need to represent high-functioning experiences of eating disorders rather than just extreme examples of obsession, weight loss, thinness and purging.

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