I thought that we didn't need another
Holocaust movie. I thought that everything about the concentration camps was
said in „Life is beautiful” and „Schindler's list”.
I was so wrong.
This year's Best foreign language movie,
„Son of Saul”, is simply the best depiction of the massacre Nazis conducted on
the Jews in Second world war up to this moment in cinema history.
It is also one of the most frightening
movies ever made, being hyper realistic in its methodical and merciless pace
and gradation as we climb down the circles of Auschwitz's hell. Laszlo Nemes's
camera is as good as in „Revenant”, maybe even better in hiding the worst
attrocities out of focus and clinging to the Saul Auslander's (incredible Geza Rohrig)
desperate desire to retain the last piece of humanity and sanity when the world
around him is collapsing to the brink of the apocalypse.
There will be no pause during two hour
course of this Hungarian hyper-drama, no mercy and no light at the end of the
tunnel. „Son of Saul” will break your heart, devour your soul and spit it out.
And it should do so, because its task isn't to be liked or watched all over
again. Its task is much more important, because it should educate, remind and
warn us that these things didn't happen somewhere in the Third world or
centuries ago. Holocaust happened to our grandparents, in the very heart of
Europe and was conducted by the members of one of the most advanced nations of
our civilization.
You must watch „Son of Saul”. I promise
you, you will never forget it.
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