We may have heard that a person’s life is threatened when they often do a lot of things that they normally can not do, such as when the danger will burst out with great strength and amazing physical ability, etc., but these are the human physiological stress response. The film “Persian Class” shows us that it is a more incredible thing, because the main character reacts when his life is threatened by the creation of a language. The film begins with a pogrom against the Jews, and the protagonist escapes with a book of Persian that he has traded halfway around the world, posing as a Persian, but as a result, he is chosen by a Nazi SS logistics officer in a concentration camp to teach him Persian. Faced with a language he knows nothing about, the protagonist has to create a “Persian” out of thin air, so he begins to use the names of the Jews imprisoned in the camps as root words, creating thousands of so-called Persian words. In the end, when Nazi Germany was completely defeated, the Nazi officer remembered not the Persian words that allowed him to escape, but the names of 2,840 Jews.
Over the years, there have been many films reflecting the suffering of the Jews during World War II, and there have been so many masterpieces that, by definition, there is nothing new to bring to the table, but this “Persian Lesson” still surprised me. On the one hand, the story of the film itself is too legendary, and even though the film begins with the subtitle “Based on a true story”, it still gives people a sense of disbelief. On the other hand, the film is aimed at a somewhat “non-mainstream” group of people, which is very interesting.
Remember our names If we had to find a key word for this movie, it would be “name”. For us, a name is a symbol of a person’s existence. Behind every name made up of words is a living life with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, and even if the person is gone one day, as long as his name is still remembered, the evidence of his existence in this world will not be erased.
After watching the movie “Persian Lessons”, I suddenly found it interesting that the main character of the movie did not reveal his real name from the beginning to the end. The name he uses in this movie is only the name of the Persian he impersonates, but his real name is never given, so he is a real “nobody”.
In this film, the so-called “unknown” is not the protagonist himself, but the thousands of Jews who were imprisoned in the camps, who were not clothed or fed, who did heavy manual labor in silence, and who disappeared from the world at the muzzles of the Nazis. Who were they? What were they called? Who were they? Where did they come from and where were their bodies buried?
The film “Persian Class” begins with a massacre against the Jews. At the moment of survival, the protagonist escapes by posing as a Persian with a book of Persian that he has exchanged halfway, but as a result, he is chosen by an SS logistics officer in a concentration camp to teach him Persian. Faced with a language he knows nothing about, the protagonist has to create a “Persian” out of thin air, so he begins to use the names of the Jews imprisoned in the camps as root words, creating thousands of so-called Persian words. Eventually, when Nazi Germany was completely defeated, the Nazi officer remembered not the Persian words that allowed him to escape, but the names of 2,840 Jews.
Over the years, there have been many films reflecting the suffering of the Jews during World War II, and there have been so many masterpieces that, by definition, there is nothing new to bring to the table, but this “Persian Lesson” still surprised me. On the one hand, the story of the film itself is too legendary, and even though the film begins with the subtitle “Based on a true story”, it still gives people a sense of disbelief. On the other hand, the film is aimed at a somewhat “non-mainstream” group of people, which is very interesting.
Remember our names
If we had to find a key word for this movie, it would be “name”. For us, a name is a symbol of a person’s existence. Behind every name made up of words is a living life with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, and even if the person is gone one day, as long as his name is still remembered, the evidence of his existence in this world will not be erased.
After watching the movie “Persian Lessons”, I suddenly found it interesting that the main character of the movie did not reveal his real name from the beginning to the end. The name he uses in this movie is only the name of the Persian he impersonates, but his real name is never given, so he is a real “nobody”.
In this film, the so-called “unknown” is not the protagonist himself, but the thousands of Jews who were imprisoned in the camps, who were not clothed or fed, who did heavy manual labor in silence, and who disappeared from the world at the muzzles of the Nazis. Who were they? What were they called? Who were they? Where did they come from and where were their bodies buried?
The film “Persian Class” begins with a massacre against the Jews. At the moment of survival, the protagonist escapes by posing as a Persian with a book of Persian that he has exchanged halfway, but as a result, he is chosen by an SS logistics officer in a concentration camp to teach him Persian. Faced with a language he knows nothing about, the protagonist has to create a “Persian” out of thin air, so he begins to use the names of the Jews imprisoned in the camps as root words, creating thousands of so-called Persian words. Eventually, when Nazi Germany was completely defeated, the Nazi officer remembered not the Persian words that allowed him to escape, but the names of 2,840 Jews.
Over the years, there have been many films reflecting the suffering of the Jews during World War II, and there have been so many masterpieces that, by definition, there is nothing new to bring to the table, but this “Persian Lesson” still surprised me. On the one hand, the story of the film itself is too legendary, and even though the film begins with the subtitle “Based on a true story”, it still gives people a sense of disbelief. On the other hand, the film is aimed at a somewhat “non-mainstream” group of people, which is very interesting.
Remember our names
If we had to find a key word for this movie, it would be “name”. For us, a name is a symbol of a person’s existence. Behind every name made up of words is a living life with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, and even if the person is gone one day, as long as his name is still remembered, the evidence of his existence in this world will not be erased.
After watching the movie “Persian Lessons”, I suddenly found it interesting that the main character of the movie did not reveal his real name from the beginning to the end. The name he uses in this movie is only the name of the Persian he impersonates, but his real name is never given, so he is a real “nobody”.
In this film, the so-called “unknown” is not the protagonist himself, but the thousands of Jews who were imprisoned in the camps, who were not clothed or fed, who did heavy manual labor in silence, and who disappeared from the world at the muzzles of the Nazis. Who were they? What were they called? Who were they? Where did they come from and where did they end up buried?
Using the names of fellow countrymen into a language to teach the invaders, it can be said that this is the softest resistance, and even not even see what effect. But in fact, it is the most lethal resistance, because it can make those criminal accomplices haunted by these names for the rest of their lives, becoming their lifelong nightmare and the ironclad evidence of the existence of those unjust souls.May we all not become that “snowflake”.