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This article investigates the smile that features in the climax of László Nemes’ Hungarian Holocaust film, Son of Saul (2015). The smile, a happy response in the face of death, is argued as emblematic of the film’s problematising of choice. The facial gesture re-presents the dilemma of choice in ways that expose the limits of Jacques Derrida’s notion of différance. In Holocaust discourse, Primo Levi and Lawrence L. Langer have spoken of death camps as sites of extreme coercion where choice was rendered inoperable. 1 This inoperability has been reflected on by Levi as a hindrance to accounting for acts of complicity committed by prisoners under duress. 2 This dilemma in Holocaust discourse is reworked in the Hungarian Holocaust film, Son of Saul ( Saul Fia , Nemes, 2015), which problematises choice in an affirmative context.
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Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars. With over 40 years of continuous publication, Film Criticism is the third oldest academic film journal in the United States. We have published work by such international scholars as Dudley Andrew, David Bordwell, David Cook, Andrew Horton, Ann Kaplan, Marcia Landy, Peter Lehman, Janet Staiger, and Robin Wood. Equally important, FC continues to present work from emerging generations of film and media scholars representing multiple critical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Film Criticism is an open access academic journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted.
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