The Nameless and the Innocent Snowflake

Jacklyn 2022-04-19 09:03:11

I have been looking forward to the movie for a month since Christmas. After watching it, I think the initial setting is still very attractive. The overall flaws are not concealed, but it is not particularly good-looking. It seems that this movie has been released in China, and you can watch it.

// plot

During World War II, a young (probably Belgian) Jew in a German war zone in France was taken into a concentration camp and escaped by falsely claiming that he was a Persian by using a Persian book he bought halfway for bread. The German officer in charge of logistics believed him and asked him to teach himself Persian so that he could go to Tehran to find his brother after the war. In the middle, he was almost discovered several times. The most recent one was when a real Persian came to the concentration camp, but Gilles turned his luck into a disaster.

// lens

The overall color tone of the movie is cold. My favorite is the picture where Gilles registers information such as names under the desk lamp and finds that he can quickly compose words with names, which is the picture on the movie poster. What impressed me was the poignant beauty conveyed by the snow-covered forest that appeared many times in the middle. At the beginning and the end, Gilles faces the camera and walks alone on the rails. Although they are very similar, their emotions are different. One is a sense of despair, and the other is a sense of compassion and hope.

// figure

It is said that people are more confident and imposing when speaking their native language, and are relatively soft and cute when speaking a foreign language. This is also confirmed by the German officer. He is irritable and unmistakable when speaking German. Even if the subordinate raises reasonable doubts, even if he talks to the superior, he is very tough and neither humble nor arrogant; When speaking Persian, it is much gentler, and sometimes he recites small poems tenderly to praise the beauty of "Persian". At the end, he realizes that the betrayed despair and anger displayed by the real Persians who can't understand their "Persian" brings him back to his German personality: a piece that does not kill with his own hands but maintains the accurate and smooth operation of the killing machine. "Innocent Snowflake", the actor's interpretation of the emotional transformation is very good.

// language

The plot setting is wonderful, but a reference to Esperanto is the case of a fake Persian who uses a name to create a new language. Not to mention that German itself is a very logical language, and the nature, number, and character of words are closely related. The way an officer learns Persian as a native German speaker is actually to learn thousands of individual words, which is not German at all. :(

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Extended Reading
  • Aric 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    Pure commercial film. I chose this one because the poster looks like a pianist, but unfortunately it's not at the same level. This is the one that saw the most early departures in the three days of watching the movie, and it was also the one that the audience used the most mobile phones. The normal length of the early two hours behind it really got me on pins and needles, too long and too much useless plot branches. What's the point of a love triangle, just to say the biggest joke of invisible? After seeing so much suffering, why did you suddenly decide to help the Italian brothers, who in turn helped kill people, even if it was a commercial film, it was too deliberate and unreasonable, right? After it came out I could only console myself maybe because it was based on real events, anyway the script was terrible. If the front is really portrayed well enough, without those extra branches and turns, it should become a big tear in the end. In the end, I didn't hear any sniffling around, which has already explained the problem. I still like this Hanhan officer very much, he looks like Erwin Smith (not). But it's too far-fetched to say it's human nature, it's love, and it's an officer and a boy. I think you're insulting "The Officer and the Boy".

  • Mona 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Another good-looking WWII concentration camp movie! "Life is full of wonders, it depends on whether you can discover them", after watching this film, you will believe this sentence even more! In order to survive, the protagonist created his own "Persian language" with the names of nearly 3,000 prisoners! The philosopher said: Famines, plagues, wars and revolutions have caused major changes and traumas in human history for thousands of years. Therefore, in the past 100 years, there has been an endless stream of literary and artistic works reflecting on World War I and World War II, one after another. Among them, the successful ones are all based on the in-depth development and respect of historical facts. This film "written based on real events" is another example. The "new crown plague" catastrophe that we humans are experiencing now will certainly be an important topic and art object for the next hundred years. What we should do now is to encourage everyone to use words, pictures, and audio-visual means to record the reality that is happening truthfully, deeply, and meticulously, rather than one-sided, cover-up, or even prohibiting records and reports. Good literary and artistic works are always produced in the observation, excavation, reflection and precipitation of real history. Watch the film, remember it.

Persian Lessons quotes

  • Gilles: [about his daily fourty words in 'Farsi'] Inventing them is not a problem but to remember them all, it's impossible. And there will always be more. Many more.

  • Klaus Koch: [Koch took Gilles back after he was put to move to another camp] You would risk your life for those nameless people.

    Gilles: Those aren't nameless. Just because you don't know their names. At least they aren't murderers.

    Klaus Koch: I'm not a murderer.

    Gilles: No. You just make sure that the murderers eat well.