This is a different World War II concentration camp movie, with shallow focus and a square frame, making the picture so simple that only follow the protagonist Sol to find the rabbi for one and a half hours!
In this process, the brutality and horror of the concentration camps are displayed through the defocused background and the sound of beatings, yelling, and gunfire in the voice-over. The audience, like Thor, felt numb to the horror concentration camps displayed in this way. Facing the prisoners who were sent to the gas chambers and some contingents helping the Nazis to carry the bodies of their comrades and clean them, the numbness felt terror and disapproval. Terrifyingly helpless, even in the riot at the door of the bathroom, the bloody scene did not disturb him. Sol only pursued the obsession in his heart and must bury the little boy according to the ceremony.
Saul's decision came suddenly and without reason, but after feeling the twisted numbness in the concentration camp, he also understood his strong obsession with wanting to regain human dignity, the dead man. The little boy was his last straw of human compassion.
The contradiction caused by this obsession is the awesome setting of this movie. Sol runs around every corner of the concentration camp. Even the uprising of the contingent is not as important as this obsession. He wants to find a rabbi. Lost the explosive materials of the rebel army and successfully dragged everyone down. Everyone else is planning to resist. Sol's teammates once told Sol that you want to put everyone's lives at risk for a dead person. ? This sentence is the starring contradiction of the second half of the story.
In Sol's view, everyone will die at the hands of the Nazis, until he saw that the dead little boy suddenly ignited the light of faith, and he decided to use his obsession with rituals to find a little bit of his numb heart. Human dignity. This kind of behavior bears the risk from the Nazis and the incomprehension of the compatriots, which actually requires more courage! Compared with his uprising companions, his actions are also responsible for his own life, but in a different way. Until the last moment, where Sol and his friends were hiding, Sol saw the little boy at the door, and finally showed a warm smile in front of the camera for the first time, and the camera finally left Sol and followed the little boy in. In the woods, Sol also completed a return, and the gunshots of the Nazis followed...
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