Son of Saulis hard to watch.
This creates an almost unbearable tension by letting you experience the Holocaust’s horror in a disturbingly personal way.
Many films strive to place you beside their protagonists, but notSon of Saul.
‘Son Of Saul’ Géza Röhrig in a scene
He is almost on autopilot, and so are you with him.
What Is ‘Son of Saul’ About?
This obsession with a proper burial that Saul pursues forms the central plot inSon of Saul.
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The film’s presentation of Saul’s journey is unflinchingly evocative and heartbreaking.
Nemes' realism is reflected in the film’s singular perspective through Saul.
The story itself draws from texts that have been retrieved from buried written diaries of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando.
But the sighting of the child’s lifeless body ignites a psychological awakening.
He doesn’t care whether this “normalcy” will be in the middle of the brutal chaos.
He goes to great lengths to seek it.
A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
His fondness for the dead boy is his way of showing he is still human.
