Faith from hell

Darlene 2022-03-22 09:02:14

Sober rebel. Thor sent his compatriots into the gas chamber all day, listening to the cry of death at the door, at this time he was a messenger of hell, already walking dead, when he saw a young survivor and regarded him as his own son, this Gu's fresh life is like a wave of ripples in the black death story, which stimulates his long-mechanized soul. He is no longer the executioner's servant and begins to run for his faith.

Absurd way of faith. From stealing the corpse, finding the priest, and burying the corpse, Saul was on the brink of death every step of the way, and even implicated his teammates. He was rescued by his teammates in time for many times, and this group of people whose lives have been placed in the death conveyor belt, so meaningless. Salvation seems to mean little to oneself and to others. The director focuses his perspective on death row prisoners in extreme environments. The daily life of burial in a peaceful age is also difficult and dangerous. Facing the inevitable death, belief is invaluable.

The irreversibility of a given ending. The bearded "rabbi" that Sol nearly saved his life was not a priest at all, he couldn't even read a eulogy, and he lost his "son" who ignited his faith when crossing the river. The teammates revolted to survive. Sol was pushed and shoved out of the concentration camp by his teammates. We thought that Sol and his teammates would be reborn. The subsequent gunshots broke the audience's expectations, and the life of the caged bird ended early.

Most of the film adopts the one-shot follow-up method, which is like walking into a repressed historical tunnel and watching the rude dragging of the left and right blurred corpses. It is an era of horror for the audience, but it is indeed an ordinary daily life for the protagonist. It is difficult to judge human nature in such a history, and the shocking picture must be remembered not to repeat.

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Extended Reading
  • Laila 2021-12-27 08:01:42

    I wanted to go to the cinema in Budapest five months ago. At that time, the word-of-mouth was overwhelming because I didn’t understand Hungarian. I finally finished watching it in the East Village yesterday. After watching it, I felt that I was missing a piece. The old Jewish man could not sit for a long time and looked at me with sad eyes. Then I went out to the entrance of the hall and saw an old woman with white hair, and she whispered to the movie poster: "My Father."

  • Corine 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    The unique feature of the film is that it always focuses on the protagonist in close-up, and the shooting method of blurred background, which not only presents the hell on earth very realistically (really the most terrifying and shocking World War II concentration camp movie, the fire of gas chambers and mass graves) but not the same. It will give you nightmares and let the audience experience the perspective of the protagonist Sol's own, that is, focusing only on the things that Sol cares about. The false rabbi symbolizes the death of God, and the narrow picture is repressed.

Son of Saul quotes

  • Saul Ausländer: I have to take care of my son. He's not from my wife.

    Abraham Warszawski: When did you last see him?

    [pause]

    Abraham Warszawski: You have no son.

  • Abraham Warszawski: You failed the living for the dead.

    Saul Ausländer: We are dead already.