The camera chains us to Saul, but the sheer chaos of the world around him is omnipresent. Indeed, stylistically, Son of Saul is calculated to stun. This central idea of the burial is the anchor in the tempest, offering a clear moral trajectory through myriad horrors which can often threaten to overwhelm it. ![]() It is an expression of atonement, devotion and defiance. In a situation where death is ubiquitous, the act of burial is not only a humanising ritual standing at odds with the degradation of the Third Reich it connects Saul to his persecuted religion. Determined to give him a proper burial, he furtively sets out on a search for a rabbi to help carry out the deed. As he clears out the gas chamber with his fellow Sonderkommando one day at the end of 1944, Saul finds the corpse of a boy he believes to be his son. ![]() ![]() ![]() Son of Saul by for #LWLiesWeekly Download the issue now at #design #illustration #cover #artwork #magazine #film #movie #cinema #sonofsaulĪ photo posted by Little White Lies on at 4:27am PDTĪt its core, Son of Saul is about the unwavering pursuit of a single act of decency in the face of overwhelming atrocity.
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