Since the camera follows Saul very closely, the moviegoer sees the atrocities from a distance, slightly vague. In the dehumanized world Saul finds himself in, even the most terrible things become routine dragging with dead bodies becomes as normal as arguing about cigarettes. They all fight their own important fight. His search for a rabbi interferes with their plan to escape. Meanwhile some of his fellow members of the Sondercommando have a different goal to achieve: to escape from the camp and they expect Saul to be with them. He wants his son to be buried by a Rabbi and puts everything to work in order to achieve this. During the two days we follow Saul, we see him trying to prevent his son from being burned in the destruction ovens, fighting his own little, yet important fights with fellow prisoners. The camp physician finishes the killing of this boy. Once they are gassed the Sonderkommando has to drag the dead bodies out of the chambers and put them in the ovens for the last part of their destruction.Īmong the dead and dying victims Saul discovers an almost dead boy he thinks to be his son. The task of the Sonderkommado is to bring newly arrived prisoners to the gas chambers. The Sonderkommando was to assist the Nazi’s to kill and destroy Jews arriving in Auschwitz from all over Europe. Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian Jew, has been made member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Brikenau. The nazi industrial extermination of what the nazi’s consider to be unwanted people, is at its peak. That summer each day thousands of Jews are being killed. We find ourselves in the Second World war, in the most well known extermination camp, in 1944. Would we be able to deal with the evil we would be exposed to? In the end I decided to go, some strange desire to find out what I could handle, but also to find out whether I could begin to understand what evil can do to those subjected to it.
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The movie Son of Saul, by the Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes, was supposedly too hard to look at.
None of us, editors of this website, dared to go.