Beautiful

"Life is Beautiful" is a 1997 film that won three Academy awards, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor, and the Grand Prix at Cannes. Director Roberto Benigni also stars in the lead role. In order to protect his young son from the impacts of Nazi atrocities, Guido convinces his child that "we are all acting and participating in a game." In the end, when he is captured by Nazi soldiers and about to be shot, the son watches, thinking that it was his father's best acting. In the scene Guido salutes his son, smiling widely, and marches to his death. The sight of him saluting and accepting the tragedy with a smile on his face will bring us to tears!

It must be also in order not to cause his disciples into panic. When we read Jesus saying that he was going to the Father, that he could only send the Helper once he was gone, that he was going to prepare a place for his friends, that he would return and take his them with him, and so on, over a quarter of a century, I always think of Roberto Benigni's Guido!