Do you think it was Saul's Son or not?

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I'm not fully sure how I feel about it.

It can go both ways. It's reasonable to believe what you do, but I also think it's reasonable to believe that the child really is Saul's son. There are subtle hints in the film that allude to this being true.

Either way you look at it, it works. I think it's best that the film left it ambiguous.


The practice of gluing the performances of two different actors together needs to come to an end.

I don't think he was. He stood and watched him be smothered but then decided he had to bury him. I think the "son" was a very good tool used by the film makers to get us to see many different parts of the camp and the different work crews of the sonderkommando. Someone else said that it works wither way, and I agree but my personal opinion is the boy was not Saul's biological son.




No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

It wasn't his son, he wanted to bring some normality among all the madness. Given the circumstances this doesn't seem very likely at all but it made for a captivating film.

Of course it wasn't.

I do not think it was his son.

If it were he would have reacted when they smothered the boy. Indeed, he would have reacted when he found the kid still breathing in that heap of corpses.

For whatever reason, he didn’t feel a kinship until the boy was dead. I like what others have suggested, Saul knew he was a lost cause, and he had let his humanity go in effort to survive, this was one last futile effort to reclaim his own soul.

I believe Saul latched on to the claim that the boy was his son because even in his damaged mind he knew if he could plead a fraternal link that it made his irrational behavior more plausible. Even in a place like that, people will excuse the insanity of a grieving father more so than they will for just another prisoner.

(Gavin from the DA board, I did not expect to see you here, it is nice to see a familiar user name once in a while).

WOW, are there people who still believe he was his son?

Raylan Givens: I'm going to need an ambulance, and a coroner.

I agree. It symbolized the loss of his son and how he never got the closure of a proper burial. He had numbed himself to the horrors around him to survive, but it also robbed him of a reason to live. Upon hearing that the Sunderkommandos could be next, the will to live and a reason presented itself in the form of the boy who survived the gassing. Saul may have been part of the resistance and he was definitely a cog in the Nazis Final Solutiin, but for this brief moment he did something completely for himself in spite of it all.