Heartbreaking

Rating: 9/10 (31 July 2016)

I have to admit I have been putting off watching Son of Saul because of it's content. A couple of days ago I finally got around to seeing it and it's stuck with me ever since. It's the story of a Jewish worker ( Saul) at the Auschwitz concentration camp who tries to find a rabbi to give a child , he calls his son , a proper burial. I was expecting this to be so graphic that it was going to be hard to watch but I didn't find it to be so. It's cleverly shot so you are focused just on Saul and hell around him is blurred or in the periphery . I found this heart breaking. Not because of the atrocities that were going on ( although they were terrible) but the fact that all that Saul wanted to do was give this teenage boy a proper burial. He didn't care for his own life . He'd given up believing that he would live. Son of Saul won this years best foreign language film of the year at the Oscars and it does make you wonder why films like this can't win best film in the main category ? Son of Saul is absolutely Brilliant.