This was a major turnoff for me here and I may have liked the film better with another approach by Nemes. You can see the filmmaker's intention to let the audience perceive the action exactly like the protagonist does, but for me it did not work. I found this style of direction pretty unappealing, almost annoying at times. Rührig is in every scene and the camera is always extremely close to him. The problem is one that I just mentioned. It is not his fault that the movie did not turn out so well. Still, it was a fairly convincing performance and he carried the film nicely from start to finish, given he was in pretty much every scene from start to finish. I have read people say he should have been nominated for an Oscar, but I cannot agree with that. Taking this into account, he did a pretty good job. Lead actor is Géza Röhrig and he is completely new to acting it seems. i cannot say, however, that this film makes me curious about other projects from him. The writer and director here is László Nemes and he is still pretty young, under 40, so we may hear a lot more from him in the future. Another thing about this movie why it was so successful is that the ending is pretty memorable and dramatic and makes it easy to forget about the boredom from the previous 1.5 hours. The film runs for slightly over 100 minutes and most of it, actually everything except the ending, takes place in a concentration camp. A film also has to tell a compelling story and this one does not I think. It looks to me as if people are appreciating this film because of the difficult and controversial subject. "ida" was already a pretty weak winner last year and same goes for "Son of Saul". And in my opinion, the got it wrong again. "Son of Saul" or "Saul fia" is a Hungarian film from last year that won big at Cannes and also took home the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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