A Different Perspective on WW2

Rating: 8/10 (14 July 2016)

Son of Saul portrays Saul Auslander, a Hungarian man assigned to the "sonderkommando" inside a concentration camp, a group of prisoners obliged to do maintenance labors and auxiliate in the torturing task of exterminating their own kin (Cleaning gas chambers facilities, burning bodies, dumping people ashes in rivers), however while doing his usual tasks he notices a boy, a gas chamber survival, being examined and shortly after suffocated by a German officer, initiating the main plot, where he seeks a rabbi to do a proper burial for the kid he now takes for his son.
What i most liked in this movies is the way they portrayed the prisoners and the concentration camps, summarizing the genre you usually see WW2 movies focused in the political/military parts or picturing prisoners only as passive individuals whom only option was to wait for the war's end, obviously there are exceptions, nevertheless that is usually what gets to the theaters.
"Saul fia" shows prisoners unique social engagement given a species of hierarchy inside the camps (Normal prisoners, sonderkommando workers and Oberkapos) and the reunion of different nationalities and languages, also it pictures well the variety of resistance activities performed by them (Writing letters, taking pictures, even weapons smuggling and riots).
Géza Rohrig did an excellent job, both expressing the angst and sorrows of Saul, yet also his efforts to survive, as mechanically executing his painful tasks and lowering his head upon officers threats.
As many people put in their reviews, it really is a film to make people remember.