A worthy film that truly does justice to the experience of true horror, never fully seen or explained but deeply felt. When you leave the film you can say little upon immediate reflection, but everyone clearly felt a sense of awe (albeit mired in uneasiness) and silent contemplation at what they experienced. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. I had the good fortune of viewing this film at a festival with a number of other people. Purchase Son of Saul on digital and stream instantly or download offline. The most gut wrenching of moments are never fully in-focus and are always just off to the side or edge of the viewer's field of vision.

This is likely by design to capture the devastating de-humanization of life in a concentration camp. You barely remember the faces of the individuals in the movie, but cannot shake the visceral and personal experience of the film. The film is oddly not really about the characters, despite the intense usage of POV or over shoulder camera work. This film does not disappoint as a worthy addition. Many excellent films have dealt with the heavy subject matter of Son of Saul. In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. In 1944 Auschwitz-Berkenau, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: offer a proper burial for the body of a boy he takes for his son. The film is a journey into one of humanity's darkest hours.

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