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Son of Thor
Lizzie 2022-03-25 09:01:14
The perspective of this World War II film is rather special. As a member of the contingent, Sol, who helped the Nazis clean up the gas chambers of the concentration camps, was only temporarily survived. Once found a boy survived, although still executed, but Thor seems to have found a miracle, desperate to find a Jewish priest to bury the boy. Thor is already desperate for life and death, but he has great determination for this matter, which is a kind of religious redemptive sustenance. The film uses a large number of hand-held close-up long shots, blurring the bloody and brutal concentration camp massacre, shaking the gray close-up of Sol, mixed with sudden sounds and events, conveying an atmosphere of unease, despair and depression, and an immersive sense of helplessness. It's the overwhelming sense of oppression brought about by this way of shooting. The film never elevates the theme of war. It uses a combination of reality and reality to design the atmosphere realistically, and uses the despair and cruelty of war to express another understanding of human nature under oppression to life.
Extended Reading
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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.
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Abraham Warszawski: You failed the living for the dead.
Saul Ausländer: We are dead already.