Son of Saul is a hungarian dramatic film about a member of the sonderkommando in auschwitz that i appreciated. it is the only production about the holocaust tha

Son of Saul is a hungarian dramatic film about a member of the sonderkommando in auschwitz that i appreciated. it is the only production about the holocaust that didn’t feel fetishistic to me somehow. i feel like it gave a small sense of the totality of defeat that must have been overwhelmingly present in that place, and the desperate reality of existence and struggle despite all, though the main character is by no means a fighter. it’s beautifully made, in a very personally close and intensely emotional style. it’s entirely fictional but based in part on secret diaries and photographs found buried within the camp. >Dear finder of these notes, I have one request of you, which is, in fact, the practical objective for my writing ... that my days of Hell, that my hopeless tomorrow will find a purpose in the future. I am transmitting only a part of what happened in the Birkenau-Auschwitz Hell. You will realize what reality looked like ... From all this you will have a picture of how our people perished. i recommend this film, and the book Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, to anyone interested in the people within the camps.