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voice in the ashes
Adrianna 2022-03-26 09:01:09
It is barbaric to still write poetry after Auschwitz. The Holocaust is an experience that cannot be written, described, or reconstructed. It is like an untreated broken bone, buried in the human body in self-loathing, with old wounds and persistent ulcers that cannot be healed. Every few years, a movie like "The Cataclysm", "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful" comes out, stubbornly exploring the scene of the original sin of modern mankind. In 2015, the film was Son of Thor. The entire film footage is the process of the audience searching, locking, aiming and focusing on Sol through the sight, following his labor in the prisoner detachment - killing Jews, poisoning, killing, transporting corpses, incinerating, dispersing Process of ashes. All you can see is Sol's face, the hell outside of him blurred and mottled outside of the shallow 40mm lens, splattered like blood. This is an extreme movie viewing experience. The audience sees the most brutal crimes in the narrowest hole... Thor is a crematory worker, a walking corpse living in a murder workshop in a concentration camp. Suddenly one day, A boy's death was activated by an oracle, and he frantically searched for a Jewish priest to bury the child, and he was to declare himself and all the vanguard dead in a dignified ceremony. To this end, he did not hesitate to drag down his teammates' dying riot plans. At the end of the film, a living and free Aryan blond child caught Saul's eyes, he smiled, and he finally encountered the gift of death he never thought of.
Extended Reading
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Laila 2021-12-27 08:01:42
I wanted to go to the cinema in Budapest five months ago. At that time, the word-of-mouth was overwhelming because I didn’t understand Hungarian. I finally finished watching it in the East Village yesterday. After watching it, I felt that I was missing a piece. The old Jewish man could not sit for a long time and looked at me with sad eyes. Then I went out to the entrance of the hall and saw an old woman with white hair, and she whispered to the movie poster: "My Father."
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Corine 2022-04-24 07:01:16
The unique feature of the film is that it always focuses on the protagonist in close-up, and the shooting method of blurred background, which not only presents the hell on earth very realistically (really the most terrifying and shocking World War II concentration camp movie, the fire of gas chambers and mass graves) but not the same. It will give you nightmares and let the audience experience the perspective of the protagonist Sol's own, that is, focusing only on the things that Sol cares about. The false rabbi symbolizes the death of God, and the narrow picture is repressed.
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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.
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Abraham Warszawski: You failed the living for the dead.
Saul Ausländer: We are dead already.