10/17/2023 0 Comments Son of saul dvd releaseIt’s a brilliant literalisation of his central character’s mindset trapped in a hell and forced to serve his tormentors as a cog in a machine whose output is death, the only way for him to make it through each day is to avoid facing the horrendous reality head-on. Thirty-eight year-old Hungarian director László Nemes’ debut film is shot in shallow focus, with his lead constantly front and centre while everything around him is lost in a fuzzy murk. Son of Saul brings that horror home in perhaps the most counter-intuitive way imaginable: by focusing so closely on one man that everything going on around him is a blur. For all its ghastly aspects, the sheer scale of the Holocaust is where its true horror lies.
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