Inner Journey and Benigini's Life is Beautiful

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Inner Journey and Benigini's Life is Beautiful

All of life is a journey. All Journeys have a beginning and an end.

All the outcomes that are associated with journey are the results of

the choices that we make in out daily lives, good or bad that have to

be lives with. In the Macquarie dictionary journey is defined as: - The

exploration into one’s self. It offers growth & development through

emotional pilgrimage and provides new insights for the mind and

spirit. Throughout this essay I will be referring to our prescribed

text ‘Life is Beautiful’ by Roberto Benigini, an image about

reconciliation shaping our future titled, ‘The roads we choose’. And a

poem titled ‘The Road not taken’ by Robert Frost.

Although the film ‘Life is Beautiful’ is not a film that I usually

see, I much rather the films that are made in Hollywood. But this

movie has made me think. This movie really coveys the true meaning of

inner journey, to me journey really means to travel, but the inner

journey involves the exploration of the self, their mind and spirit.

The poem ‘The Road not taken’ by Robert frost was written in 1914 when

frost went to visit his family friends in England. The poem uses

simple languages so explore complex ideas and issues, the concept of

inner journey was used to metaphorically represent the basic choices

in life that all people face regardless of time or place. Frost has

used the traditional form of poetry to present an incident in his life

‘Two roads diverge in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel

both’ where a decision has h...

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centre, one road is brown the other is black and at either end of the

picture there are two hand reach out for each other, each hand is

aimed at one another this symbolises that the hands want to travel

together on the path that they choose to take for any reason good or

bad. Once you start to travel on one path it is difficult to turn back

and change your direction of your future.

As we can see from the two related text talked about earlier its is

seen that there are two paths that can be chosen to be explore but in

the film ‘Life is Beautiful’ Guido doesn’t have a choice, Guido is

forces to go to war, his forces to attend the concentration camp but

nothing could be done to stop Guido and Joshua from going to war. I

end in saying the inner journey involves the exploration of the self,

their mind and spirit.

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