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The bifurcated road is in front of two people, one is the prisoner "Reza" in the concentration camp, and the other is the Nazi captain Koch; one road leads to the airport, you can go to Istanbul by plane, you can transfer to Dehran Open a German restaurant that he has longed for, one road leads to the unknown, although the German army has been retreating in the war, "Reza" may meet the Allies - two people are prisoners and officers, two roads lead to the already. Knowing and unknown, but when two paths and two fates are laid out at this critical moment, for them, it is about another direction of life: "Reza" really met the allies, and he finally got rid of the fear of war. to a known life; and Koch spoke so-called "Persian" at the airport, but no one who knew Persian understood a word, his Persian, his Tehran plan, together with His fake "Marcel Garang", the Belgian identity, turned into nothingness, and finally went to the fate of a loser.
This is the final ending. When Koch was arrested for shouting "I speak Persian", "Reza" on the other side recalled the names of the prisoners who died in the concentration camps one by one. They were 2840 names, But it was 2840 lives, they were 2840 lives, but they became the 2840 words he taught Koch's "Persian class" - life long ago disappeared in the Nazi massacre, but "Reza" was named after the word The way they retain their names is a memorial and an indictment. But when Koch was arrested for "Persian language", this "Persian language class" in a concentration camp should really decide the final fate of the two people in this way? Walking on the rails, "Reza" heard the words that the Allies asked him: "How many prisoners are there in the concentration camp?" There are 2840 names spoken by memory, but after answering this question, why is he walking on the rails alone? Why am I still seeing fog? He looked up at the sky at last, as if looking for the shadow of God, as a Jew, he cheated on the Persian book in the concentration camp he was put in, he lied to Koch that he was Persian, and the last forked Did not even think about telling Koch the truth on the road, does it also mean a kind of blasphemy? Just like when he finally left the concentration camp and walked into the depths of the forest, he saw the abandoned church with the image of the cross of Jesus erected. Did he feel the guilt of blasphemy in his heart?
When he went from being a Jew to a "Persian", when he named himself "Reza" after pretending to be the owner of the book, when he learned the Persian word "Dad" and got a chance to survive, he was undoubtedly lying, that is A life saved was found in a lie, and this named lie was actually headed for the same fate as the "Marcel Garland" Koch was finally spotted at the airport not in his passport: they both became unnamed People, they all live in lies, they save life or deprive life, also because of naming - when naming determines fate, when life is just a word, does it show the cruelty and survival of a kind of war desire? Does war necessarily destroy people's religious and moral sense? Is it true that human beings can only be a signifier without meaning and humanism in the end? What exactly is "signifier" in Persian? Is it and the signified heading for a split?
"Reza" was a Jew who exchanged a piece of bread for another prisoner's Persian book in the car being escorted to the concentration camp, and named himself from the "Reza" signed on the book, which the prisoner stole. Come, this sin of religion has appeared from the very beginning, "Thou shalt not steal" is the commandment, but the prisoner got the book of "Reza" and exchanged it for bread, and when the Jewish man exchanged the book, he Not stealing but lying. The prisoners were taken to the woods, and when the second batch of prisoners was about to be executed, "Reza" shouted a sentence: "I am a Persian." And Koch, the captain of the concentration camp, was looking for the Persians, so this sentence What was a theoretical straw for Reza ultimately left him as the only survivor, taken to a concentration camp, placed in the kitchen, and Koch's Persian "teacher".
"Reza" is undoubtedly an opportunist, but compared to the prisoners who fell in front of him, his opportunism kept him alive, but opportunism was also an adventurism, because although Koch was very interested in He was dubious, but also threatened him: "I hate thieves and liars the most." Once Koch learns that he is a Jew pretending to be a Persian, the final outcome is still death, but the unknown death is better than the known death. more possibilities. So for Reza, the next task was to pretend to be a Persian and "speak" Persian, which was almost impossible for Reza, except for the prisoners in the car who taught him Persian. He doesn't know anything about "Dad" except "Bao Bao". The signified in the language was taken out, and for Reza only the signified was left, so he began to name, from kitchen knives, forks, dishes, to various other utensils, Reza began to name himself, This is his own naming system. Random, even random naming, has no intention to push him into a state of unease, because he himself must first correspond to the item pointed to by each word, only after repeated confirmation and repeated memory in order to avoid errors.
Using his own naming method to say words to name objects is the first step of "Reza" nomenclature. His "Persian" as the signifier of the symbol corresponds to the object, so this is a kind of survival that does not exist. The naming mixed with emotion is a naming in a material sense. Being so careful and trembling, Koch did not find any flaws, but in Koch's further study, this opportunistic naming had to be turned. Koch gave Reza forty German words and asked him to translate into Persian, and then give him the relevant sayings. Facing these Germans, Reza fell into a kind of fear, because this time it was forty words, and tomorrow it was another forty words. In the long run, this kind of random naming cannot rely on memory to complete the connection between words and things. correspond. But on the roster of the prisoner list, Reza suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Could their names be named Persian? On the one hand, he turned the names on the list into Persian words, and on the other hand, when he called the prisoners by giving them food, he got a correspondence between the words and the names, which was a way of naming things that was random. Naming is more reliable because each word points to a living being - once the prisoners were shot and died, those names became permanent remembrances of them.
The naming of Reza is actually still full of risks. Even if he "taught" Koch more than 600 words in five months, once someone understands Persian, all his efforts will still be zero, and his life will be lost. It will still be lost in the end, even if no one knows Persian, as long as Koch has doubts about him, he will show flaws in the test - at the picnic of the Nazi officers, Koch asked Reza what to say about "tree", Reza But saying the same word that Koch had been taught "bread" before, how could tree and bread be the same word in Persian? Naturally, Reza’s statement could not convince Koch. Koch called him a Jewish pig and sent him to the quarry to work as a coolie. But this was just an accident, and it wasn't Koch himself who really doubted it, so after the hard labor in the quarry, Koch still let him go back to his original post, because as far as he was concerned, he really needed such a Persian teacher.
In fact, Koch had no doubts about Reza. First, there were no prisoners who knew Persian to verify Reza's identity under the circumstances. Second, Koch was indeed attracted by Reza's Persian language. This is the most beautiful allegory language, and a poem is composed in the Persian language that has been learned. Between Reza and Koch a Persian structure was established, signifiers of symbolic meanings on the one hand, and signifieds of meanings on the other, and when those words were all named after people, it actually merged a kind of life, and Koch's learning of Persian has gradually become a language related to life. Although Koch was a captain in the concentration camp, what he told Reza was that he joined the Nazis occasionally - only when he was dragged to join the Nazi party on the street, and then he became an officer by ghosts. Because of this, His brother left him and started living in Tehran, so Koch's idea of going to Tehran to open a restaurant was in fact to make up for the loss of kinship -- an emotion that transcended war, which in a sense The colonel was blocking this expression of humanity. When the colonel learned that Koch's brother was in Tehran, he questioned him: "Why did he immigrate there?" In his opinion, this was an unpatriotic charge.
It is precisely because of this human nature that exists outside of war that Koch has no doubts about Reza, nor exposed the brutal nature of the Nazis, and he even protects him everywhere - an officer in charge of kitchen work, A Nazi who has never shot anyone, a German who yearns for freedom, a man who loves to write poetry and hopes to unite with his family, is undoubtedly a "heresy" in the concentration camp, but unlike this "heresy", the German soldiers in the concentration camp are The executioner of the killing, who shot the prisoners in the jungle from the beginning, and in the concentration camp, Sergeant Max has the power of life and death, he wants to prove that "Reza" is not a Persian, or just for merit, for a few cans of beef, And when there was a Persian among the prisoners he captured, he pulled Reza to expose the lie, but the Persian prisoner cut his throat for no reason, and there was no chance for meritorious deeds. Max yelled: "Who did it? ?" He thought it was "Reza" who killed him, but when Marco who came in later admitted that he did it, Max killed Marco in the cell without any reason, and the continuous gunshots made "Reza" tremble. , experienced too many life and death, in the face of every bloody death is still an inescapable terror.
Because "Reza" is facing terror at any time, he is more conscious of life. When he was transporting things back to the concentration camp, he saw some things scattered on the ground, he picked up a rag doll with the words "AVIVA" written on it. , which should be the name of its owner, so "Reza" named after this name the most important Persian word: life. Life is the chance to live by exchanging lies for oneself, life is the name left by the prisoners who were executed, life is the blood and tears behind every "Persian word", life is also the common resistance to violence - "Reza" The can of beef that the Koch Award gave him was given to Marko, who gave it to his mute brother Jacob, and Marko thanked "Reza", and it was this life-saving, when Mark thought When asking another Persian prisoner to expose Reza's lies, Marco was able to come forward and even trade his own life for Reza's survival.
Every self-made Persian is a life, every life is a named Persian, this is how words are named as life, in a Persian class written with life, breaking the Ten Commandments and not stealing is still for To live, to turn my back on the Bible and start lying is to live, to bet 20 cans of meat for my life is a killing game, to survive with the names of 2,840 prisoners is humanitarian - so in a prison with a strong sense of life, in In the war where every effort is made to save life, life is beyond all existence. Whether it is Koch, a Nazi officer, or Reza, a Jewish prisoner, they have only one life in cruel times, and on the road of separation, they have only one life. The only outcome: to live, or to die - just as words were created and may be destroyed.
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