Masterpece ( Indian Reviews)

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2016)

This is a movie about humanity amidst cruelty, a movie that speaks about human compassionate culture still surviving in the house of evil and barbarism. Son of Saul is a movie that takes you straight into the extermination camps of Nazi Germany where a Jew makes a desperate attempt to bury a young boy with proper Jewish rituals. The task was next to impossible as we has looking for kindness in a house that was host to cruelty and destruction of humanity. The beauty of this movie is that it is quiet and silent and yet filled with screams. Director László Nemes has not only captured the horrors of these gas chambers but he actually made the viewers feel the screams and horror. The scenes of holocaust were not directly shown but were kept out of focus in the background which actually was more effective for me. If we imagine ourselves present in that place we would avoid looking the killings directly and they will just remain as glances at the corner of our eye creating an out of focus smoky image in our memory. The Director captures this perfectly and the killings may not give your eyes a brutal shock but it leaves a deep impact after every scene. The sound captured in the movie was also brilliant as the dialogs were as loud as the background noises giving the viewer a more accurate picture of the place. At times you will feel you are just present with Saul peeking over his shoulders.
The movie is not about heroism, victory or a war story. Because such incidents like holocaust do not fit in those category. It is a movie about humanity trying to breath its last in the kingdom of Devil.It is a story about how invisible relations are born in the strangest of manner possible at a place where every relations are destroyed and burned in fire.
This movie shows that a good story teller can create masterpiece even on a newspaper. One does not need high budget and CGI to tell a story that etches in your memory very deep. The acting of every actor was excellent and even with a very limited dialogue they successfully displayed every single emotions of that scene. It is a movie worth watching alone. I am sure it will hit you deep inside. I am so sure...