Review of Son of Saul (2015) by Dirigiblepulp — 01 Feb 2017

I found the filmmaking style a bit grating at times. I love the conversation it starts, about the acceptable ways in which to experience the Shoah through art, but it also does feel like it's done as a way of exploiting the horrors therein. Does this filmmaking style work if it isn't based on the Shoah? I don't know that that's easily answered.

It's also clear that the plot is a thin veil through which to take a tour of the horrors of the camp without directly dealing with them. It's ostensibly a fetch quest about an oft overlooked person (in historical accounts that is) in the camps -- the sonderkommando -- trying to bury someone who is or isn't his son. A reckoning with grief, and exploitation.