Because you don't know their names, they become nobody, but they are no worse than you.
Perhaps we have all heard that when a person's life is threatened, he often does a lot of things that he can't normally do, such as erupting with great strength and amazing physical activity when danger comes, but these are human stress reactions. The film Persian Lesson shows us something even more incredible, because the reaction of the protagonists of the story when their lives are threatened is a kind of creation.
The film begins with a massacre of Jews, in which the protagonist saves his life with a Persian book in exchange for half a sandwich, and he escapes by posing as a Persian with a Persian book, but he is also selected by the Nazi SS logistics officer in the concentration camp to teach each other Persian. In the face of his ignorant language, the protagonist can only create a "Persian language" out of thin air, so he begins to use the names of the Jews in the concentration camps as a root word, creating thousands of so-called Persian words. Finally, when Nazi Germany was utterly defeated, the Nazi officer remembered not 2840 Jews in Persian, but 2840 Jews. In recent years, there have been countless films reflecting the suffering of the Jews during World War II, and the number of masterpieces has been pouring out, and it stands to reason that there is nothing new to inspire people, but this Persian lesson still amazes me.
First of all, although the title of the film is "Based on a True Story" at the beginning, the story itself is too legendary, which is still incredible. But on the other hand, the film focuses on some "non-mainstream" groups, which is very interesting. Remember that if our name is to find a keyword for the film, it is undoubtedly the "name". For us, a name is a symbol of a person's existence, and behind each name is a living life full of joy and sorrow, even if one day, this person has disappeared, as long as his name is remembered, the evidence that once existed in the world will not disappear.
After watching the film "Persian Lessons", I suddenly found a very interesting place, that is, he was never revealed his real name from beginning to end. The name used in the film is only the name of a Persian who has been used fraudulently, while his real name has never been mentioned, which can be called "the unknown generation". And in this movie, the so-called "unknown people" are not the protagonist himself, but thousands of Jews, who, like him, are locked up in concentration camps, they have no food, clothing, and warmth, and they silently do heavy manual labor every day, but they quietly disappear under the guns of the Nazis.
What are their names, where do they come from, and where are they buried? No one knows. I was impressed by a scene in the film where, just after a walk around the concentration camp, the protagonist hiding outside returns and picks up a rag doll in the open space, of course, a Jewish child who was thrown away after being wiped out, and a strip of cloth sewn on a doll, and another with the name avava. The protagonist tore off the strip of cloth, and when he returned to the concentration camp, which had been full of people and was now empty, he gave the strip a "Persian" meaning: life. Then, a scene of rickshaws full of Jewish corpses drove to the crematorium, sweeping away the names of the dead. All of this is the most shocking and shocking key in the film: a surviving "Nameless Generation" remembers 2840 "Nameless Generations" who once lived, and as long as they read it again, they will not disappear. Those names remember, and there was another man.
In this film, no snowflake is innocent, and no snowflake is innocent, which can be said to be the most appropriate sentence in the film. In the past, those who committed terrorist crimes in war always talked about the leaders who started wars and plotted conspiracies; in previous films, the villains were often the lifeless, lifeless Nazi officers. But we tend to ignore at this time those who seem mediocre and sinful, such as the guards in concentration camps, the drivers who transport Jews, the soldiers responsible for opening and closing the gas chambers, etc., which seem to be a simple thing, just the screws of a giant machine, not a crime. But this is not the case, and each of them is an accomplice to sin.
Once again, we look back at the film, and the biggest villain is a SS captain named Koh. This Koch was not a supreme camp commander who held all the power to kill for life, but an officer in charge of the camp's logistics, in layman's terms, an officer in charge of the canteen. And it is precisely in this character that the true meaning of the phrase "no snow and no snow" is truly reflected. I could see that Koch was a man very different from the Nazi officer we had previously remembered: he was just a logistician who never shot anyone; he longed for a life of freedom and peace; he loved poetry, loved his family, longed for the war to end soon, and opened a restaurant with his brother who had fled to Iran. Although he looked very different from Nazi SS officers, in essence he was indistinguishable from other SS officers and did not care about the lives of others. In his eyes, except for the "noble" Aryan race, the other races are pigs and dogs, and he does not care at all about how others slaughter these "pigs and dogs", he is worried about how to provide these people with quality food so that they can slaughter more powerfully. And for him, this film is just a dog that can guard the family property. When koch was learning the so-called Persian, he kept praising it as a beautiful language, and even wrote a quiet poem in the wonderful language he had learned, but what he did not know was that these words, which he called beautiful, were in fact the names of the lives he despised and ignored, those that disappeared out of his window and he was indifferent. But he has always been remembered and remembered by him. It's ironic.
At the end of the film, the 2840 names are repeated, but the results are completely different. First and foremost is Iranian customs. Koch's self-righteous speaking of the "Persian language" he had learned was in fact reciting the names of beings who had disappeared into the world because of his help, just as they had wronged them, and these names, along with the wronged souls they represented, shattered Koch's dream of escaping judgment. The next appearance was in the Allied camp. The rescued protagonist is asked if he can recall the names of the people he was detained in the concentration camp, and the protagonist begins to read the names one by one, and these names are deeply imprinted in his mind. The names that had been his life-saving aces, along with these names, the surroundings fell silent, and they watched the protagonist recite these names one by one, just as they saw the life represented by these names, and an individual stood on this land again, telling the world their dissatisfaction. Teaching an intruder a language in the name of a compatriot is arguably the weakest form of resistance that does not even have any effect. But, in fact, it is the most sinister resistance, for it will haunt these sinners for life, becoming their lifelong nightmares, as well as their lifetime of sins and sins. Hopefully, none of us will turn into that snowflake.
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