Two & Two
Release date: 2011-05-11
Votes: 24
Genres: Drama
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.
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In a schoolroom populated by identically clad young students, the teacher arrives at 8am precisely to make quite a startling announcement. 2 + 2 = 5!! He then proceeds to ram that home, despite protestations from the children that this is just plain wrong! As they become more emphatic, a mini-rebellion broods and the teacher drafts in some moral support from older pupils who trot out the desired answer parrot-fashion before presenting a firing squad to the pupil who still insists it's four not five. This short film demonstrates quite an interesting concept. That of indoctrination, especially when driven by fear. It also, though, shows us a little of a defiant human spirit and that works quite well from the boys in the face of their oppressive teacher in public or surreptitiously. As a piece of cinema it's unremarkably filmed, somewhat implausible and repetitive - maybe the latter criticism helps it prove it's point, but when you're watching you get the gist way before the end. Interesting, though.
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