Primo

I decided to spend my day re-watching my favourite 80s movies. I started the marathon with Breakfast Club, where strangely, I still cry when Claire (Molly Ringwald) telling her story. The second movie was Tootsie! Dustin Hoffman really blew my mind with his low voice and extremely pointy nose (and I love Dorothy!) When I was about to browse the third movie, I randomly had this movie called Primo on one of movie channels. So I decided to watch a minute or two, since it was a monologue, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it that much. But then I realize that I watched the whole movie. I watched monologue for one and a half hour, that's totally an achievement. The first monologue movie I had was An Inconvenient Truth. I swear if it wasn't for my school project on global warming, I will never watch that movie. I fell asleep on the first 20 minutes, specifically when Al Gore presenting his charts with his exceptional mini elevator to help him explaining some really tall charts, and it's unimportant (the elevator, I mean, not the charts, I swear.)

So, back to the movie Primo (I'd like to call it a film rather than a movie), I like it very much, I didn't regret accidentally watch the film. Primo is a film about an Italian Jew chemist named Primo Levi, played by Anthony Sher, whose remarkably known in Shakespeare in Love (mentioning this movie makes me having imagination of Fienes brothers in my head, including Ralph -please don't laugh, he really is good looking, I just don't understand why he wanted to be Voldemort.) Sher's monologue really was enjoyable and made me creating my own setting of the film. Like when he said that he was shaved and stripped by the Nazis and forced to put on wooden-soled shoes that really hurt if the prisoners didn't get the right size, I could just imagine himself in a grayish room of a German prison with hundreds of naked and shaved European men and the Nazis keep yelling at them. The sound of cello as the background really mind-blowing. It had sad yet reviving spirits.

I know once that I saw a book about Primo. The book titled If This Was a Man. I was attracted by its story line that it had a people with brains as a prisoner of Nazis. I just knew that this kind of people would make a creative life in his times during being captured by the Germans, that he would survive, not weirdly being beaten to death just because he didn't finish his job in the factory. It is just almost similar to Shawshank Redemption. And it was just like as I thought. He survived the Nazis because he was a chemist and that the Germans needed him in the lab. What makes the whole story interesting is that, he was suffering and yet he still wanted to suffer. I saw him that way. I enjoy the film that way. He never intended to leave, nor to steal some useful things to escape. It was enjoyable for such monologue movies.