Class Enemy (2013)

Igor Samobor: Robert

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• Sasa : [subtitled version]  I know your class well, and we get along. So I can help you. Hey, we could go somewhere and talk about it. After school. They're starting up those... you know, serious concert seasons of serious music. I mean, I've always wanted to listen to deeper, classical music. I think you're the same.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  Where would you like to go? To the classics or El Clásico?

  Sasa : [subtitled version]  What?

  Robert : [subtitled version]  What are they playing? Mozart, Messi, Xavi? Thank you for the coffee.

• Robert : [subtitled version]  Today I would like to speak in Slovenian. I don't want either you or me to miss anything. Tell me, what did I do wrong? Tell me honestly. You have nothing more to fear. Luka.

  Luka : [subtitled version]  You didn't listen to us.

  Spela : [subtitled version]  You're mean.

  Tadej : [subtitled version]  You threatened us with absence penalties and fail grades.

  Nik : [subtitled version]  Yeah, and if we smile it doesn't mean we're stoned.

  Primoz : [subtitled version]  You didn't grade us fairly.

  Mojca : [subtitled version]  You took Sabina's death as an educational subject. Not as a tragedy.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  The essence of Nazism is not that all people are subordinated to some authority. Nazism does not acknowledge the term "all people", because for them only Arians are people. All others are something that needs to be removed. Something that is not part of the plan. Tell me - have I ever treated you unequally? Have I ever shown that anyone is more important to me?

  Nik : [subtitled version]  We were all equally worthless to you.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  Yes. We could say that, yes. You rebelled. To begin with, all of you. Then you discovered that it's perhaps not all so black and white. That things are not that simple. And you argued with each other. Because you couldn't make a decision that would suit everyone. Because there is no such decision. I never talked very much about Sabina, because she made her decision. Bad, good, the only one possible - I don't know. But it was hers. So you don't know what you want to study. You don't know what you want to eat. What music you like. Whether to do a test or not. So how are you going to decide between life and death? How are you going to judge what is really important in life? Did I trust you too much and make a mistake? Did I trust you too little? I don't know. But I never made the decision for you. You had the chance to grow through the tragedy you encountered. Now you are leaving this school without knowing if you made the right decision. You will never know. Because you didn't trust yourselves and the person in yourselves. You thought that through Sabina's tragedy you could show how the system doesn't work. No, the system works. The system always worked and always will work. Because the system is cold, inexorable and mathematical. But if you're sufficiently solid inside, you're a stone in the river that is untroubled by the rushing water. You, on the other hand, are drowning, grabbing every branch that passes in panic. But that branch is also going with the river. And so on until the end of your life. Those who decide to find the bank, will find it. What happened can't be changed. All you can do is change yourself enough to understand and accept things. Sabina is still dead. And you are back at square one. This is our last lesson, as you know. And I'm not going with you on your leavers' trip. I wish you all the best in life.

• Robert : [subtitled version]  In her essay, Mojca clearly wrote...

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  Essay, Robert? What essay? Your class hates you! You said you had sorted it out.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  They rebelled because...

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  ... because they saw how you were tormenting Sabina, and then to cap it all you told them "Leben geht weiter".

  Robert : [subtitled version]  Das Leben geht weiter.

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  Whatever.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  And because everyone else danced around them and treated them with kid gloves, they take every well-intentioned word as a cruel attack on their personal freedom.

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  Welcome to the twenty-first century! They used to fear us, now we fear them. That's how it is.

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  Look, your teaching methods are entirely your own affair as long as they don't put the school in a bad light. This business has gone too far. We're on the verge of a disaster. If the class keeps its revolt going long enough, in the end no teaching method will work.

  Robert : [subtitled version]  Being a student isn't a right, it's a duty. As far as I'm concerned, the whole class can hit the streets now. Secondary school is not an obligation but a privilege.

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  Great. So you'll tell the journalists that when they call and ask why I expelled a whole class!

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  In your place I would think about how to educate them into people, and not about journalists.

  Zdenka : [subtitled version]  If you keep up your stubborn insistence and arrogance, you'll have plenty of other things to think about. But if you let me run things the way we always have, then you and I can sort this out differently. The way we do things at this school. Differently.