I'll keep this short: Another rewiever wrote this film was about "what a man will do when he goes insane". That just hit me like a hammer, as it is exactly the other way around. This is not a film where a man goes insane. This is a film where one man is the only sane person in a world filled with insane and inhuman people. This is the purpose of the film. This is it's drive. All he tries to do in a world that has completely collapsed is to do one final act from the normal world that once were.This is so much better than all hero movies ever made. Saul is just a glimpse of normallity in a world that just gave up humanity in all senses.

Okay pros first: technically this is an excellent film. Cinematography gives it a truly claustrophobic and confusing feel. You really feel like you're the main character in an utterly horrible place that you can't escape and don't really understand. It's something I haven't seen in a holocaust - not really in any - film before.Many people have said how the film is about the protagonist trying to find some piece of humanity in a horrific place. But the film is not about humanity, it's about insanity. The protagonist has gone insane - and I don't blame him considering that situation he's in. For me the problem is that you have to follow this insane unsympathetic character trying to complete his insane task for the whole 1h 40min. He is getting his comrades killed, he's risking their escape plan and generally acting like an asshole just to find a rabbi to bury a boy he thinks is his son.What really worries me is that Saul is caring more about one dead person than a bunch of living ones and people call that humane.

It made me think of "Schindler's List"(1993) but this "Son of Saul"(2015) is different. It's as good as Spielberg's film, maybe even better. Love for your own child, even dead, makes you do unusual things, to defy death that awaits for you anyway, inside or off the concentration camp. A film excellently played, filmed, directed.

Never reviewed a film before , don't care about my spelling don't care about the ,s and the .s , just watched the film and felt the need to write something . Rated the film 6 , wanted to give it 7 or 8 for the first 30 minutes of the film , but slowly started to get annoyed. Hate the Jewish propaganda of religious importance . F.ck the religion , not only Jewish but Christian , Muslim and all the rest. Hated the importance of a religious tradition to bury a body of a boy , over the importance to save lives. Don't make a film about the few that chose to obey , the few that chose their life over hundreds of others !!!!!!!!!!! .F.ck this film and its maker . Make a film about the people that were brave enough to give their lives to safe others , others lives not just bodies because of their religious believes !!! . Started writing this with a rate of 6 for this film , finished with a rate of 4 . I understand that this is factual , and probably needs to be said and past on . First review that i find when i google this film is ' an outstanding, excoriating look at evil in Auschwitz ... This astonishing debut film, about a prisoner in the concentration camp employed in the industrial processes of body disposal, is a horror movie of extraordinary focus and courage' , my opinion , detailed look at the ill and bent by religion mind that's at the end of it sanity . Chooses the burial of a body over the lives of fellow living people. Courage ???!?!?!? Wheres the f.c king courage ? , insanity all the way !!! . During WW2 courage meant death !! and the word courage should be reserved for the people that lost their lives saving others or trying to end the tragedy of ww2 and the German invasion. The so called courage of Saul caused more death . People around tried to survive , realising that there is no mother f ucking GOD !!!! and even if there is one , hes a f cking pr.ck , allowing this to happen . He was so courageous , that he didn't risk his life for his sons life but he risked his life and lives of others for his sons body . Film about surrender , the less we get of this sort the better we will be . Thank You