If he attended your funeral, he is your relative

Vicenta 2022-04-22 07:01:40

The first murder in Western history - Cain killed Abel.
God created Adam, Adam created Eve, Adam and Eve had their first son, Cain, who was a farmer, Adam and Eve had a second son named Abel, and Abel was a shepherd. One day was the day of offering sacrifices to God, Cain brought food and vegetables, Abel brought meat, God liked what Abel brought, Cain had a grudge and killed Abel when he went down to the earth, God for the sake of Punishing Cain and banishing Cain caused him a lifetime of misery. God was afraid that someone else would kill Cain, so God put his mark on Cain. Westerners believed that the Jews were the descendants of Cain, and they held a grudge against the Jews from then on. After thousands of years, the genocide that destroyed humanity finally began.
Movies about the Holocaust are similar to China's anti-Japanese dramas. Polanski's "The Pianist", Aaron Resnais's "Night and Fog", and the latter can only be said to be a bad street. This time, the director can find another way to tell the catastrophe, and it is still his debut film, and he has won several A-category international film festival awards, which can only be explained by genius! (It is said that the director is Bella Tarr's assistant, but in the afternoon, the school will show "The Horse of Turin" and Mr. Tarr's exchange meeting. I saw Mr. Tarr yesterday. Due to the restraint at that time, I didn't ask for a photo. , Now think about it, I want to give myself a big mouth).
The contingent was organized by the Germans for the purpose of slaughtering Jews. If the Jews are the descendants of Cain, the contingent is the descendants of Cain! They have never regarded people as protagonists in previous films. They are traitors and accomplices of German lackeys. Saul's obsession was established under the double torture of religion and flesh.
In the video, the film follows Sol with a long shot, close-up, follow-up, close-up, taking Sol's heart as the first perspective to tell that Sol wants to do a ceremony for the funeral of "his son", with a large aperture and a shallow depth of field. It blurs Sol's first perspective, keeps the audience in Sol's world, suppresses Sol, suppresses the audience, and hangs the audience's sympathy and resentment towards Sol for disregarding the life and death of others. Brushing blood, taking out clothes, crying, and the smoke lingering from burning corpses match the style of photography. The photographer did not directly give you those naked pictures, even if there were, you would be confused. It was a visual shock to you. Not giving you is a mental shock, the massacre as long as you close your eyes you can smell the burnt corpse!
There is no soundtrack in the whole movie. The soundtrack is a double-edged sword. It can convey the director's intention when used properly, but it will cause ambiguity when used incorrectly. However, the sound of shouting, brushing the floor, barking dogs, and breathing is the best soundtrack. . Music not only needs to be pleasing to the ear, it also needs to be mentally trembling!
Some people say that "Saul's obsession with a religious ritual and disregarding the lives of others is a kind of Nazi in itself", there is a scene in the film where the contingent is approached in a room, and a partner comes to him and asks him that you are disregarding us for a rabbi After the death of the spirit, Thor replied, "We are dead." However, as Thor said, after the spirit died, their bodies also came to an end after struggling. Thor's ceremony is not finished in the end! As an atheist, this is obviously a little hard to accept!
I heard that there is a saying in Judaism "If he attended your funeral, then he is your relative", that complete body is their last relative!

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Extended Reading
  • Chadd 2021-12-27 08:01:42

    Don't go to the theater alone. As expected, the experience of watching movies is very uncomfortable as described in the media. It makes my chest tight and depressing. The semi-first-person perspective and the processing of the virtual focus of the perspective not only allow people to follow the male lead to see all kinds of cruelty in the camp, but also not to be frightened by the too bloody perspective. Towards the end of the movie, I hate the male lead, but after the end, I understand that there are some greater things worthy of redemption.

  • Miles 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Through difficult cinematography and an expressive soundtrack, [Son of Saul] finds a new language for Holocaust cinema. Its power comes entirely from its form, and the out-of-focus brutality is made all the more horrific by its extremely cramped camera perspective. But its story level is lackluster, and Sol's dead horse's behavior as a living horse's doctor is naturally for self-salvation and meaning creation. The image of the so-called "son" is only a structure, and there is no room for improvement.

Son of Saul quotes

  • Saul Ausländer: I have to take care of my son. He's not from my wife.

    Abraham Warszawski: When did you last see him?

    [pause]

    Abraham Warszawski: You have no son.

  • Abraham Warszawski: You failed the living for the dead.

    Saul Ausländer: We are dead already.