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Marcelino 2022-04-21 09:02:50

For a long time, my attitude towards war-themed movies and even history is that I don’t know and don’t want to understand, but this movie is a style that I respect very much in terms of form and content, so I took the risk and watched it.

The director is a perfect shadow focus. All the cruelty has blurred out a naked, bloody, fuzzy corpse. Can't bear to look directly at it? But he is right there! Pushing death fiercely to the audience, breathless, smooth, long shots, a lot of ots shots, taking the audience to appreciate the real hell from every detail and corner, except for the fouced Thor, there is always a dense crowd of people standing between life and death, killing or killing. slain crowd

The story is about Thor desperately trying to find a rabbi to bury his son. Yes, there are always things in the world or in human civilization that are more important than life and death. That's belief. I'm not religious, but I'm not an atheist. The priest you bought with your life is a fake, and your heart is still shaking. What is human nature? Is it the Nazi officer who tricked the Jews into the gas chamber? Are you worried about how to burn people faster than boiler workers? Prisoner detachments who fought hard for a living to join the guerrillas? Or the last child who ran into the depths of the forest and disappeared?

Everyone in this terrifying concentration camp is nothing but divided into living and dead, but those numb living people!

Thousands of movies make people feel emotional and thoughtful, but war is always the heaviest one

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  • Alphonso 2021-12-27 08:01:42

    The big screen is like a mirror, the audience’s perspective is blurred, but the protagonist’s POV’s feeling is an anxious and depressed object in the mirror, a concentration camp hell that can be experienced. The short focal length is almost applied to the face. I have to admit that the concept, perspective, technology and intention of this film are very tricky, unlike a novice work. But it definitely belongs to the film I don't want to watch the second time. The protagonist who insists on going his own way, the unwarranted son, did dig a big hole for others

  • Laurine 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    1. Shallow depth of field defocus + hand-held follow shot + close-up close-up + sports long lens + rich ambient sound + retro narrow format + 35mm film, a new shooting method of the Nazi Holocaust. 2. The individual perspective replaces the grand narrative, approximating the truth to the greatest extent, everything is blurred, and the cruel history hits our souls at the edge of the image and the space outside the painting. 3. It has nothing to do with inspiration, but pays attention to the belief in the abyss of despair. Even if it is paranoid, the boy at the end is really pleasantly surprised. (8.8/10)

Son of Saul quotes

  • Saul Ausländer: Rabbi, Help me bury a body.

  • Abraham Warszawski: Who's this boy?

    Saul Ausländer: My son.

    Abraham Warszawski: But you have no son.

    Saul Ausländer: I do. I have to bury him.

    Abraham Warszawski: You don't need a rabbi for that.

    Saul Ausländer: At least he'll do what's right.