Author(s)

Yuyan Tu

School of Humanities and Law, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China.

In recent years, many Western anti-war films are adapted from literary works and real historical events. Most of them continue the tradition of reflecting the war and analyzing human nature, and reproduce the social life environment during the Second World War with different events. This article will analyze the two anti-war films, “A Persian Lesson” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, to compare and analyze their differences in narrative perspectives, hostility in identity and position, the change of relationship, details in lens language and the metaphor of props. And this paper will show the plight of people’s existence and the good, evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature in the difficult social background, so as to provide a reference for future anti-war films.

Film Narrative, Anti-War Film, Human Nature, “A Persian Lesson”, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

Tu, Y. (2022) A Comparative Analysis of the Narration of the Anti-War Film “A Persian Lesson” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. Art and Design Review, 10, 447-454. doi: 10.4236/adr.2022.104035.