If I say 2+2=5, how many of you will stand against me, I hope everyone, now if I again say 2+2=5 and have a gun pointing at you, now how many of you will still against me, I hope no one and if still one of you take the courage to defy me then I shoot you, will that action can create any more protestors against me, I guess not one in hundred or may be in thousand. You are bound to believe to whatever I say if I have the ultimate power, now the question will you still fight for what you believe in and know is true, even if you know that it may cost your life.
A wonderful true inspiring 8 minute short film from “Babak Anvari” - Writer, Director, Producer of this short film.
What a beautiful film to potray a strong social message that too in a bracket of 8 minutes, yet so in realistic, simple and at the same time in a very different way.
Synopsis
In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit.
Some snaps below :
I feel that the point of the film is to show, that if you believe in something, you shouldn't let anyone take it away from you, even if the majority are against you. Even if you don't succeed, so long as the goal is good someone else will pick up where you left off until that goal is reached. Now that’s exactly what we see in the ending scene of the film.
It’s like sometimes we know the truth but we have to pretend we do not know.
The film kept me thinking for quite a long time, I hope it will make you too.
Below is the link to watch the full film :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHAuGA7gqFU
