Son of Saul
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Laszlo Nemes
Dec 17, 2015
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Son of Saul is a Holocaust story, but more broadly it’s a story of grief, mourning, and human breakdown while facing unspeakable atrocities.
The film is bookended by remarkable scenes. The opener is especially dire as it displays a group of Jewish prisoners coerced into removing their clothes to enter a “shower” with promises of a warm meal to follow. They go in. Because what choice do they have? A different group of prisoners is tasked with cleaning up the mess and rooting through pockets of the deceased. This scene jumpstarts the narrative that follows Saul as he tries to do right by one of the deceased he declares as his son. It chugs along through scene after scene of desperate futility in a world where choice and hope have been eliminated.
Son of Saul hammers the theme of helplessness, and it sometimes gets a bit redundant, but it carves out a series of images that will be incredibly difficult to suppress.
www.sonyclassics.com/sonofsaul
Author rating: 8.5/10
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