"The desolation (loneliness), the experience of being abandoned by everything and everyone"

Nemes thus exposes also because it breaks taboos; in recent weeks, the film has also sparked growing criticism. For him, it is necessary that fiction seizes the extermination camps, because today it is no longer possible to make a film like monumental documentary Shoah by Claude Lanzmann based entirely on testimony, simply because direct witnesses are now scarce.

According to some, the film deserved the Palme d'Or, for others it is "problematic." The son of Saul of young Hungarian LaszloNemes makes perplexed critics, historians and public. Even the most avid defenders of the film have confessed to have gone backwards because the subject is nothing less than a direct confrontation with the worst barbarism of the twentieth century, which counted as: the world of gas chambers Birkenau.

The quote is from Hannah Arendt, one of the most radical thinkers of totalitarianism, particularly the functioning of Nazism. It fits perfectly with the situation in the extermination camps, "this world of the living  dead" yet says Arendt, including the main character, the Hungarian Jew Saul Ausländer - even its name (the "Stranger") refers to it. Saul is one of the "Sonderkommando", these Jewish prisoners who were to operate the gas chambers, according to the most evil of Nazism process, also analyzed by Arendt: involving victims to their own extermination. The relationships between the members of the Kommando are in fact extremely hard and behavior of Kapo, heads of commandos, like other Jews, reproduced in their language and brutality than their Nazi tormentors.

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