"Son of Saul" Saul fia2015, Lone Rock Film Review 7.1 points, 17 Rated.
If it were you, all day long, you would see stripped people being sent into the gas chamber in waves. After the gas was released, you would hear the dying howls of men and women inside, banging desperately on the iron door beside you, and then the sound gradually diminished until it was silent. , and it's not over, and then you and the others go in, drag the carcasses into the incinerator like a white-striped pig, and then you and the others brush the blood off the ground, and, you know, soon you will do the same Die, what would you do if this were you? .....If it were me, I would choose suicide, because I can't bear that kind of inner torment, not only me, but many survivors of Nazi concentration camps still choose to commit suicide years later.
This is Saul, this is Saul's work, he has to endure this inner torment every day, and the only thing that supports him to survive is faith. In the end, when he made a choice between life and faith, he chose faith. The boy in the film is the symbol of his faith. If you give up the boy, you will give up the faith, and if you give up the faith, life is better than death.
Faith is people's pursuit of redemption in this life and the afterlife. There is no belief in Chinese tradition, even if Buddhism has been reduced to a tool for people to seek wealth and children today, as Yi Zhongtian said: Chinese people have ghosts and gods without religion, and worship without faith. Therefore, this "Son of Sol" surprised the Chinese people, it was difficult to understand Sol's obsession, and of course he would not understand the other side of life.
The film's shooting method is unique. It uses a 1.37:1 picture and uses a close-up lens to track and shoot. It makes people feel that the picture is cramped, which further enhances the depressing scene, but I personally don't like this kind of shooting. The shaking of the picture makes me feel dizzy. Greatly reduced viewing.
The film uses a lot of handwriting on the sound effects. Howling, reprimanding, gunshots, brushing the ground, and shovels are interspersed together, which together with the cramped pictures create a terrifying and chilling atmosphere.
This film won the Oscar for best foreign language film that year, and its cruelty exceeds all the Nazi concentration camp films I have seen. Those who are taboo watch it carefully.
By the way, I admire the Germans, who are not shy about their past crimes and expose them deeply, unlike a certain dynasty or an island country.
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