Son of Saul is a symphony of genocide in surround-sound. Trucks heave and chug, carrying the cargo of lives soon to be incinerated. Death machines hiss and pound and whir, and metal scrapes metal. Gunfire and bombs resound from the very near distance. Dogs bark at everything. There are wails, protests and prayers in Yiddish that are untranslated, because why bother? The … [Read more...]