There are so many WWII movies that it seems like you’ll never be able to watch them all. And this film has exchanged a new angle, starting from a seemingly impossible story, once again pushing the anti-war to a new height.
Only a strong desire to survive can burst out such creativity and create a language. I think the biggest advantage of Europeans lies in the multilingual environment. It is easy to master more than two languages and switch freely. For me, who is struggling on the edge of self-learning English for decades and still can't communicate freely It's so tempting, because language is not a simple course, but a door that, when opened, leads to a new world. The mastery of multiple languages will have an impact on thinking, and the worldview will become three-dimensional. After all, what human beings say and think is mostly expressed in language. It can be said that language defines thinking, broadens but also limits thinking. If you only master one language, your understanding of the world will become one-sided, and the three-dimensional world will become a flat map. And "Persian Lessons", it is not a real language, but it is a real language. One end of language is hope for life, and the other end is brutal reality. This Persian language, spoken by only two people in the world, is a bloody language composed of the names of 2,840 Jews.
Reza is also not the real name of the protagonist, just the name of the owner of a Persian book he accidentally traded for. From the beginning, only to survive, just for a little thing, to finally see through this status quo, and hope is still in the distant future. The way he exchanged identities with his Italian brother was not his sacrifice, but the performance of seeing through reality and insisting on dying. Living in fear all day long, surrounded by death every day, no matter how strong the psychology is, it can't bear it.
On the other hand, Captain Koch, a German, lived a gentle life in a dark concentration camp, and his civilized demeanor could hardly conceal his brutal nature. In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent. Every individual forms a war machine. No one is innocent, whether it is on the front line or the rear.
Captain Koch, who switches seamlessly between a passionate lover of "Persian" and a serious camp administrator, knew from the beginning that the war would end, and even imagined a better life after it early on. He inadvertently saved Reza's life, but he also ruthlessly acted as the executioner, ending countless lives.
Calm and restrained, the film shows the unforgiving reality of the concentration camps scene by scene. There is no heaven, it is hell, and the Jewish God may be asleep.
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