Everything outside his own survival becomes a blur, and the camera reflects and respects that. As a trustee in Auschwitz, assisting with the systematic execution of thousands of other Jews like himself, he's had to narrow his world down to his immediate surroundings. For the most part, as the film progresses, only Saul and the things that become important to him are meaningfully in focus. But as the setting becomes clear in director László Nemes' shockingly brilliant debut, the ambition, intelligence, and emotional heft of that strange opening shot does too. It takes much longer for viewers to find their bearings in the chaos that immediately follows. The camera is handheld, but it still stands passively still for nearly two minutes, until protagonist Saul (Géza Röhrig) walks from the background to the foreground, and his grey face takes over the frame in ultra-sharp detail. Son Of Saul opens with an out-of-focus shot of an empty forest glade.
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