Friday, 4 March 2016

Here There is No Why: Son of Saul and the impossibility of imagining the Holocaust

Here There is No Why: Son of Saul and the impossibility of imagining the Holocaust

With his extraordinary debut film, Son of Saul, Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes creates a new visual language with which to approach the camps. It’s an approach that accentuates incomprehension. Nemes doesn’t show us suffering or murder. He doesn’t enter the gas chambers. Violence happens everywhere, but the action is often blurred, or positioned on the edge of the frame. This disordering has a hallucinatory quality.
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