Elias's father, Anton, was a doctor who worked in an African shelter most of the year. Elias was subjected to school violence, was stopped from going to school every morning, and his bicycle was deflated, causing him to push his bicycle home every day. He didn't fight back or tell his parents. Christian, transferred from London, and Elias were at the same table. After helping Elias get beaten, Christian beats up the bully in the toilet. There is no doubt that the two were questioned by the police, and the two were of the same caliber. On the way home, a conversation in the two cars at the same time. Christian told his father that if I didn't fight back, people would think I was a bully. The child was violent, rebellious, and upright. His mother died of cancer. His father often did not come home from business in London. He blamed his mother's death on his father. Anton took his two sons to play with Christian. The younger son fought with other children. Anton came to teach the children how to beat people, but the father of the child came over. Slapped Anton twice, Anton didn't fight back or call the police, even though his children told him to do so. At that time, I wondered why he didn't fight back. No wonder his children didn't fight back when they were bullied. Elias would tell his father where they went and communicate with him. Christian, on the other hand, is a prickly kid who solves everything with violence. When Anton took his three children to look for the person who slapped him again, hoping to get an apology, he was slapped a few more times, and he didn't do anything. Talk to that guy that he's a violent guy and he's a loser. But Christian and Elias are ready for revenge, and they're going to blow up the man's car. And just when Elias was hesitating whether to go or not to seek help from his father, his father happened to encounter something in Africa that day. When he finished talking to his father, his father's network was not good and he didn't hear it at all. Elias showed the helplessness at that time very well. They went to blow up the car in the morning when no one was there. Unexpectedly, two morning joggers and daughters came. Elias ran out to let them go, but he was injured by the explosion. Like Christian telling him to take someone else's when his valve core was taken, his first reaction was that someone else was going to push the car home. Elias was wounded, her mother was too sad and blamed Christian. When he came to see Elias, Elias's mother told him that he killed her child. Because of his guilt, he ran to the top of the warehouse to commit suicide, but Anton came to rescue him, and opened Christian's heart knot of losing his mother in a persuasive way. He saw his father in front of the warehouse door and hugged his father, and the resentment disappeared.
Anton, the first time he saw that he was beaten by someone who did not fight back and did not call the police, he felt that this person was very cowardly. But he was working as a doctor in a violent African tribe, which is extremely contradictory. He's not a coward, he's a real strong man. Others repay evil with evil, but he repays evil with good. Children have more emotions and less rational instincts, and the sin and evil of the adult world continue to magnify. The alternation of long-range views and close-ups of characters, the unique tranquility of Northern Europe, and the loneliness of high distances highlight the psychology of the characters and allow the audience to speculate.
Evil only keeps things going in a bad direction, and only good can stop this dynamic.
In the shelter where Anton is located, there is a bully named Big Man. They bet on whether the fetus in the pregnant woman's womb is a boy or a woman. In order to verify it, they will open the pregnant woman's belly and leave after verification. Anton performed a lot of operations there for pregnant women with this condition. Once the big man got injured in the leg and came to him for treatment, they came with a car and a gun. Anton told them that weapons and vehicles could not come in, or they would not be healed. He didn't know the man was a big man, but when the nurse told him that the man was a big man, he insisted on the treatment. He said it was his duty. Later, Anton operated on a pregnant woman whose belly was cut open, but the pregnant woman died. He was very helpless. Who knew that the big man saw the dead pregnant woman lying on the bed, and he did not apologize at all and said insulting words to Anton. Anton was very angry and drove him out, and the refugees in the shelter came out to fight stature. Can't imagine how frightened the women there are.
This is a movie that needs to stop and watch, and its narrative pace is slow.
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