Just brushed the "Persian Language Class", Douban score 8.5, after reading a feeling, this man is too clever (cunning) wisdom (cunning)!
The film tells the story of an ordinary Jew during World War II, using a Persian book in exchange, disguised himself as a Persian, and then deceived a German officer.
Can you imagine that this is based on real events?
After analyzing this man, there are at least four reasons for this man to live to the end.
1
Excellent screenwriter, good at using props to carry out the transfer. At the beginning of this movie, there is a prop that determines the fate of the male protagonist.
The story takes place in a car escorting Jews to a concentration camp, where a hungry stranger begs the man for a sandwich in his hand in exchange for a book in Persian.
Even if he knew that the books were useless to him, the male protagonist finally did not have the heart to refuse.
I opened the book and it was written in Persian that BawBaw (Dad) gave Reza (Reza). This is also the two Persian words that the male protagonist learned from the mouth of this stranger.
Then the car stopped, and the SS lined up the Jews and strafed them with machine guns, and the man was recognized, although he pretended to fall to the ground.
When kicked up by the SS, he shouted that he was a Persian, not a Jew, and used the book to prove that he was really a cunning boy.
It happened that a German officer needed a Persian teacher, so he survived.
If the male protagonist did not have compassion on the road, and did not exchange food for the book, the story should end here.
But a small person, an insignificant compassion, has bought himself a glimmer of life.
2
The officer wanted a Persian teacher, and the man was said to be cunning and quick-witted, because without knowing anything about Persian, he was able to concoct a language according to the roots of the labor register, and from beginning to end he justifiably fooled the officer with false Persian, which showed that this was a big fool.
But if a lie is told, it must be covered up with countless lies. If he didn't want the lie to be exposed, he could only deceive himself first, and even he believed that he knew Persian, and every word he said was true, so that the lie could be said without thinking.
When the German officer looked at the swaying tree in the distance and casually asked Reza what the tree said in Persian, Reza, who was cutting bread, casually replied, "Radchi."
The officer was furious because he thought Reza had deceived him, and in his previous studies he had learned the Persian word for "bread" as "Rachi".
Because of this momentary negligence, Reza was punished by the officers for the hardest and most tiring work, and let people torture him.
At night, the exhausted Reza kept talking nonsense in fake Persian in his sleep, and the officers who came to him, looking at Reza, who was asleep and shouting his mother in Persian, finally believed that Reza was a real Persian, and from then on not only forgave him, but also trusted him.
Reza continued to be his Persian teacher, and did light work in the kitchen.
The most brilliant trick is to regard deception as a fact, and to have the ability to clearly speak a lie and must also speak a human language.
3
But a person, in the face of the suspicious Nazi Party around him, always has a time to be negligent.
For example, the concentration camp captured a true Persian.
And the officer, who thought he had learned Persian very well, wanted to talk to other Persians, talk about ideals, talk about life, and so on.
But when the soldiers were about to take the Persian to the officer at night, they found that the Persian was dead. It turned out to be Reza's Italian friend who helped Reza kill the true Persian.
The Italian who lived opposite Reza had a mute brother who was in poor health, and Reza often secretly brought him back food for the officers' rewards to eat, so that the dumb brother could survive. In order to repay Reza, his brother killed the true Persians, and Reza survived another disaster.
Look, what you owe will always be paid back! Usually do more good deeds, maybe you can have one more friend who is willing to insert a knife in your ribs.
4
At first, the officers were very distrustful of Reza, but in the end they regarded Reza as a close friend and provided various kinds of help to Reza, during which what did Reza do?
Reza mobilized the officer's compassion.
When a person shows a weak side, the strong are prone to sympathy, pity and care for the weak. So the officer gave Reza work, food, clothing, shelter, and his compassion was satisfied, while also showing his pride and superiority.
In the play, Reza always shows in a timely manner that I am weak, that I am weak, that I am not a threat, that I can't live anymore...
No matter how strong people are, they have compassion, and seeing the weak give assistance comes from the heart, which is also a psychological manifestation of self-satisfaction. It can be seen that when doing things, if you can mobilize the compassion of the other party, many problems can be solved.
The whole film does not place too much emphasis on the brutal scenes of the Massacre of World War II, but several scenes revealed from the perspective of the protagonist Reza are already chilling.
A carriage, carrying a cart of unclothed corpses, marched slowly. In the dim tone, the car slowly moved forward, heavy and breathless.
In this context, small people such as Reza live in obedience to human nature, carefully release the good, and leave a more lasting warmth.