In 2015, Hungarian director Laszlo Nemesch's Son of Saul received huge applause and criticism as soon as it was released. As the young director's debut, the film's subject matter is heavy, narrating the powerless resistance of an ordinary prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. As the darkest page in the entire modern history, the Nazi concentration camp is a nightmare that people will not forget for a long time. Maybe the term nightmare is not accurate, what does it mean to be human when nightmares become reality? Sol, the protagonist of the film, is a contingent member in a concentration camp. Here, it is necessary to explain the task of this special organization of the task force - "their task is among the newly arrived prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers (often completely unaware of what fate awaits them) Maintain order; Remove corpses from gas chambers; pull out gold teeth; shave off female prisoners' hair, sort and sort clothes, shoes, and luggage contents; send corpses into crematoriums and monitor the operation of the furnace; extraction and cleaning ashes. The Auschwitz contingent, depending on the time of day, ranged from 700 to 1,000 men. "This is Primo Levy's introduction to the task force in "Submerged and Saved." Of course, it's not a privileged group of prisoners, quite the contrary, Levy says in a later paragraph, " The task force did not escape anyone's fate. The SS did everything possible to make it impossible for any of the contingents to survive and tell the truth. "The Nazis' intention was not just to requisition labor, but to let the contingents exterminate their own kind to prove the inferiority of the Jewish nation, so as to comfort the broken conscience of some people. When you know that you are doing a heinous thing, and With no hope of escape, the most likely consequence is collapse, the loss of morality and self-esteem of all human beings—" Some of them said: 'In doing this kind of work, people either go crazy the first day, or slowly Get used to it. The narrative of this film focuses on a "riot" in the contingent, while the protagonist Sol is not active. He only thinks about the "son" wrapped in a corpse, and he begs the doctor who is also a prisoner not to perform an autopsy. I wanted to find a Jewish rabbi to reassure the child. But this was in a concentration camp. The camera followed Sol, watching him bewildered, anxious, flustered, and expressionless. At the end of the film, the rabbi I found It's also fake than the original, and the children stalked downstream with the water. The riot ended in that no one was spared, and bursts of gunfire echoed in the sky above the woods. The outstanding thing about this movie is that it completely abandoned the previous concentration camp movies. It focuses on the most extreme life experience of man. When everything is lost, what is faith? For Saul, after seeing all kinds of atrocities, he hopes that the rabbi will give this innocent The last bit of blessing from the child of his father, he hopes that he will not be thrown into the crematorium after death, but buried in the ground like a human being. Further, when the birds in the forest begin to chirp, we realize that nature is more Human beings are even bigger, and many atrocities have not let nature lose its true color. How small a person is, his absurdity and evil. The outstanding thing about this film is that it completely abandons the romantic and dramatic plots of previous concentration camp movies. It focuses on the most extreme life experience of people. When everything is lost, what is belief? For Sol, after seeing all kinds of atrocities and feeling numb in body and mind, he hoped that the rabbi would give this innocent child the last blessing. . On a deeper level, when the birds in the forest began to chirp, we realized that nature is bigger than human beings, and the numerous atrocities did not make nature lose its true color, how small human beings, his absurdity and evil. The outstanding thing about this film is that it completely abandons the romantic and dramatic plots of previous concentration camp movies. It focuses on the most extreme life experience of people. When everything is lost, what is belief? For Saul, after seeing all kinds of atrocities and feeling numb in body and mind, he hoped that the rabbi would give this innocent child a last blessing. . On a deeper level, when the birds in the forest began to chirp, we realized that nature is bigger than human beings, and the numerous atrocities did not make nature lose its true color, how small human beings, his absurdity and evil.
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