iTunes Exclusive Episode Son Of Saul

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even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford. Welcome, sir. Thank you for having me, sir. This, well,
I mean, he has kind of this particular case. If I'm not here, I wouldn't work too well.
Because in the movie that we're about to discuss, you're the only one that's seen it. Yes.
We kind of had to go in two different directions. Yes. You and saw the one movie and we
went and saw another. What we're here to talk about today is a film called Sun of Saw.
Written and directed, a co-written and then directed by Laslo Nemes. This is his first
feature-length film. The only other things that he's directed before this were three shorts,
called with a little patience. The counterpart and the gentleman takes his leave.
And technically, the film is called Saw Thea. Yeah, it's a form language. It's a form.
Set in 1944, Auschwitz. A prisoner is forced to burn the corpses of his own people.
While he finds a moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames, the body of a boy he
thinks is his son. Oh, dear. This is heavy. This is heavy.
Before we begin, even though only when we able to see this, we got to thank Josh for inviting
all of us to this. Absolutely. All right. All right, best friends. Oh, good to be with us.
Yeah. Starring Giza Roreg, Levente Molnar, Irz Rechen, Todd Sharmo, and many, many more.
Don, let's just dive right in. Because your opinions, the one we want to talk about here,
this is a hundred and seven minutes. So it's just over an hour, 45. Yeah. How would, how did this story
when it was presented to you on screen? How did, how did, what do you think of it? Before we begin,
I, I'm going to warn the Empire. There's no way to sugarcoat this. This is the Holocaust. So
we're going to warn you, there's going to be some stuff in here that might be uncomfortable. Okay,
and I'm also this is a form language film. There's four languages, but English is not one of
them. It's subtitled all the way through. Okay. There. The plot is really kept me interested the whole
time. Okay. It flowed well. There's no real dragging in this thing. The plot basically follows
salt. And he's in Auschwitz. And he's what they, what they call a Sonder Commando. Sonder Commando,
which is basically like a trustee in the, in the jail system. Okay. They have a, they basically
are workers with a little bit more past and stuff like that. And basically they help with the
extermination of the people coming in. And how it basically works is these people coming to this room.
They say this row. We're going to get you some soup and everything else like that. And I have to go
into this. There's no way you're not to talk about this scene. Correct. It's right at the beginning,
and then they go in and they go, we're going to send you a room and you're going to start
showering up. Once you get cleaned up, we're going to use some soup and everything. And then they
collect the door and they gas them. Okay. And he's one of those people say, hey, take off your clothes.
Get ready. You know, you know, he's going to be the one coaching them into the room for the
door and the door. And as soon as that door locks, he starts grabbing their clothes,
grabbing everything to be sorted out and all that other stuff. Okay. And then after the
unfortunate incidents, what happens is that they carry the body's way to be pre-mitted.
And what's really interesting on the film is he goes through a lot of certain areas.
And you see how other people, all these, these trustees, I'm going to call him because I'm
going to try to pronounce that name again. These trustees, the jobs they do.
And what's really weird, the first time you see that incident happen, it really hits you.
Right. But it happens so much, so much. You get used to it just like they do.
Now, let me ask you this, over the last couple of years that we've been reviewing films. We've
been reviewing films as a group for almost two and a half years now. We've seen more than one
film that deals with topics within this time. Yeah, frame. Yes. Some more even specific
closer to this story than others. Yes. How does this compare to those? It's in a realm of its own
because how often do you see a movie about the people that were the trustees and shows the
everyday life of a prison? Okay. Shinders listed showed so many different areas and everything
in so many different people. This shows the life of somebody day and day out working in the
concentrate and they're happy because they're not being gased. Did you think the story was told well?
Yes. Very well. Let's talk about the way it was shot.
How? How? Because again, you've seen it. I really have no frame of reference. Incredible. Because
it is, it was filmed like in an old military bunker compound. It's what I heard. Okay. I got
a red up on this and it made you feel like you were in a in Auschwitz. And it was shot in 28 days. Yes.
You felt like you were in Auschwitz and how you just see this rotation and it's like a simply line
of this thing happening. And so the setting was beautiful. Now there isn't underlying plot where
there, I have to say this where they're trying to possibly do a revolt. That's all I want to say.
Okay. Okay. Without going too into it. So there's two stories. This guy saw sees a child and
thinks that's my son. And he's trying to without him getting cock because he will be killed if he
gets caught once instead of having that child burned and cremated. He wants to get a proper Jewish
burial. And he's trying to find a rabbi so he could get his son in a proper Jewish burial under
the ground. So those are the two underlying stories. But the look which was so weird is after they
did the deed of the gassing and they got everything removed. They had him going and clean it.
Every time it's like this has to be sanitary. So we could do this. Why did it have to be sanitary?
It was so weird. But it did. It's the way the Nazis did things.
But it was so weird how you're watching this time after time that you just like these prisoners
you get used in an immune to it. That was the scary part about this thing. Because when you see this
extermination, extreme over and over, the first time it hit you in the gut after the scene at 15
times you're like, there's another one. It was so weird. Wow. So do you feel the performances
that comes from the performances being as strong as they were that gave you that sense? Yes.
Yeah. Because it just showed these, you know, trustees with no emotion. There are no
it's going to be going on just a job. I'm doing a job. The performances how they're able to adapt to
that. And it shows some really graphic brutal scenes. We got to warn you there's nudity
it's a Holocaust enough set on that about the brutality of this thing. But there's some real
scenes that really just kick you where it gets really in depth of the horrors in the camps.
Any stand-up performances for you or just solve that down? Geese erroric. Yes, who play them.
I mean, I could not really find a disappointing role in this.
Is there anything else, Chad? Is there any questions that you have as we go through this before we start
talking final analysis? So you say that at of all the films you've seen based on this subject
matter, like films like Life is Beautiful or the piano, or the pianist, or the pianist.
And even films that we've reviewed. Yeah. That this is, there's nothing really that
it's a bit category by itself. I'm going to say because it shows the everyday life. It's something
you just have to do. And the whole thing takes place over two days. Because of the, because of the
particular subject that they're focusing on or is it more? It's them planning the revolt.
It's them. He'm trying to bury his son without feeling cock as he'll get killed if he does.
And the horrors around it and a people living in everything. And that's why it takes place in over two
days. It's a proper jury Jewish burial has to be within two days. Yeah. And him just trying to find a
rabbi. You know, I was, you know, and keep it secret without the word. And this is also
Hungary's country submission for best foreign language film for the Academy Award. Okay.
Is it? Yeah, I believe it. It might hit it on this one here. He can't compare it to
the shimlers or the pianist because it's in a different realm, but it's more, it is more brutal
than shimlers, let's believe it. Wow. That's saying something. Because it's just
the immunity and seeing it happen. It's so weird that kind of explained it. The fact that you
that you became desensitized is what's so shocking. That's what he did. Well, that's what he was saying.
Yeah, that's what I was saying. It's like, as many times as you saw it in shimler,
you never got used to it. But eventually, it's just kind of weird. He used to, because you
get used to it. Wow. It's just part of the, I guess, part of the emotion. Yeah. And so weird is the scenery
around it. Yeah, most of it's inside the bunker and these camp things. And these, these trustees
had their own special kind of area where they stayed. You know, they were treated a little bit better.
Not like, you know, I'm right. It wasn't great, but it's better than a lot of people had.
And seeing the scenery even outside the camp and everything, it just hit home of the,
it's an incredible journey. But I got to warn you, it's not for everybody. This, this may,
some people may not be able to handle this. All right. So you ready for the final analysis?
The way we do the final analysis on this shows a little bit different. We don't give you thumbs-ups
down. We don't give you stars, letter grades, rankings 1 to 10. Our audience, the empire,
they're a little bit hungrier for knowledge than that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
ask down two questions. The first question I'm going to ask them is, what do you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here. If the answer is yes, then I'm going to ask it. How far
is he willing to go to see it? Full price, twilight, matinee, early morning on a weekend, second run,
netflix, red box, or cable. Do I want to say this again? Okay. I want to vary one quick thing
in this. Sure. This might be like a Schindler's list where some people will see it once and never
see it again, but highly recommend it. Okay. I got to do that. You see it. Yes, I would see it again.
Okay. So how would you recommend it to people seeing that kind of Schindler's list with me?
Uh-huh. I would probably do HBO, but I would recommend it as a twilight. So you would recommend
people to see it in a theater. In a theater twilight. Yes. Okay. Yes. But again, some people they'll see
once and never see it again. We don't understand about it. But yes, because of the matter.
Chad, do you think that's what I had? I'm intrigued. I'm definitely wanting to see this now.
The movie is called Son of Saul. Again, probably head out. Thank you so much to Josh and everybody
at our life for inviting us. Thank you guys so much for everything. Yes. Thank you so much, guys.
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