Fateless
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
Our read · Fateless (2005) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded war · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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