![]() ![]() ![]() But while they share essentially the same subject matter, the experience of watching each movie is fundamentally different: Nelson’s film is talky and philosophical, whereas Nemes’ is terse and visceral, the kind of movie you feel in your bones. As in Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone (2001), the central character is spurred to action when he discovers a child who’s survived the gas chamber, and the film ends with an uprising like those which occurred at Treblinka and Sobibór in 1943 and Auschwitz in 1944. ![]() László Nemes’ Son of Saul (2015) is the second movie I’ve seen specifically about the Sonderkommandos-units of Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps tasked with leading people into the gas chambers, pinching their valuables, and disposing of the bodies. The Man Who Loved Children: László Nemes’ Son of Saulīy Michael Sooriyakumaran Volume 19, Issue 12 / December 2015 5 minutes (1133 words)
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