i have read some complaint about the graphic nature of the brutality of this film ( even to the point of allege gratuitous liberty with the subject ) . but it work represent there be no way to sugarcoat what happen to the well and less know victim in the horrific physical and emotional and spiritual environment of the gaschambers and crematorium of a concentration camp . the film be blunt in it no hold bar approach and and despite of the end attempt at a poetic touch and effective in get and hold your attention . those associate with the film be to be credit and laud for make the story stand out above star recognition . some scene be so well shot a if they be stage piece and effectively heighten the emotional impact of thiese scnes . i think it become all too possible to become jaded to the event know collectively a the holocaust ( nevermind the relatively unknown horror of nanking or rwanda and or . ) . this film do not allow any quarter for dissociation . the routine way in which the graphic result of the gas chamber be display for you serve only to increase that horrify perspective of what we a human be capable of represent not only by inflict such horror and but by also stand by and participate and in any manner of self presevation . the sonderkomado attempt at an act of redemption in save the girl what a painful wish for a different sort of self preservation . once you have compromise so much to save your body and be there anything you can do to save your soul . this be truly one film i would recommend and to get beyond the political and historical storytelling and and to go beyond to really take deep gut wrench view of the result of such crime against humanity . you see the direct result of the violence and but you also see a more complex story of the repercussion of choice make and and a questioning of the cost and meaning of survival .