Two & Two
Francaise title: Deux plus deux
Spain title: Dos + dos
Greek title: Δύο και Δύο
Russian title: Два плюс два
Original title: Two & Two
Alternative titles:
2+2=5, dos mas dos igual a 5 | Dyo kai dyo ison pente
Short movie – Vereinigtes Königreich
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 8 minutes
Director: Babak Anvari
Writer: Babak Anvari, Gavin Cullen
Cinematograph: Kit Fraser
Music: The Last Post
Movie description:
Anonymous grey 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.
The film starts when a male teacher comes to the grey classroom. The headmaster says good morning and says a message that there will be the ongoing changes in the school, and said that the students’ teachers will advise them further. The teacher tells the children that two plus two equals five. He told the children to be silent, otherwise to have order in the classroom. The teacher writes 2 + 2 = 5 on the chalkboard and tells the children to repeat after him, in order to know. A student asked the teacher that two plus two is four, then the teacher said that two plus two was actually five, and told him to sit down and be quiet. The teacher told them to put their notebooks up and to write 2 + 2 = 5. While the teacher was saying the expression, another stu-dent was saying that two plus two was four. The teacher asked him who gave the student per-mission to talk, and scolded the student. He was ordering the student to say 2 + 2 = 5 but the student denied. A student was saying 2 + 2 = 4, but the teacher was ordering to face the front. Then, the teacher sent the 3 older students and the older three students said two plus two equals five was true. A student had to be sent to be next to the teacher. The teacher was holding the chalk. When the teacher said to the student that it was his last chance, he cleaned the 5 and replaced it with 4. The older students started shooting at the classroom and injured the student. An injured student was later taken by the older students. The teacher cleans everything from the chalkboard. A student writes on his notebook 2 + 2 = 5 and then he strikes the 5 and writes the 4 next to the stroke 5.
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