IL CINEMA BELLICO TRA IL RISO E IL COMICO IN “LA VITA È BELLA” DI R. BENIGNI (1997) E “HASSAN TERRO” DI M. LAKHDAR HAMINA (1968)
WAR CINEMA BETWEEN LICE AND COMEDY IN "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" BY R. BENIGNI (1997) AND "HASSAN TERRO" BY M. LAKHDAR HAMINA (1968)

Summary/Abstract: Laughter and comedy through war cinema in “La vita è bella” by R. Benigni (1997) and “Hassan Terro” by M. Lakhdar Hamina (1968). La vita è bella and Hassan Terro, are war films, which take place between tears and laughter. Both films are inspiring, moving and engaging, counted as masterpieces of cinema. La vita è bella: It takes place between 1939 and 1945, when the Second World War ends, but it is not a story about fascism or, Nazism or their decadences. It is the human story of Guido, Dora and their son Giosuè, of a family desperately trying to survive in the midst of extermination, emphasizing the desire to still be happy despite the monstrosities that surrounded them. Hassan Terro: While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, he is an honest and naive family man, accepts to offer, without knowing it, hospitality to a Maquisard actively sought by the French army. A series of events and misunderstandings quickly catapulted him to the front of the stage, presenting him under the pseudonym of “Hassan Terro”, a great fictional terrorist who would have sworn the loss of the French army, according to Le Maghreb des films, 2014. How did the two comedians make viewers laugh on tragic subjects like war? And what is the phenomenon that makes him act to become emotionally involved in the scene that amuses them? If laughter as a human behaviour arises in social life, it can be assumed that it meets certain needs of life. To shed light on the reason that makes us laugh, it is not enough to indicate when we laugh: we must also reflect on what we are laughing at which is, for Bergson, everything in which the imagination sees a kind of mechanization of life.

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