**The title of "Land of Mine" is Under sandet / Land of Mine (2015), also known as the District of Flesh / Ten Boys Who Defend the Bomb (Hong Kong) / Boys Who Defend the Bomb (Taiwan).
A Danish-German war movie based on a true historical story. The story takes place after World War II. The Danish government arranged for German prisoners of war to clear the landmines buried by the Germans on the beaches of Denmark.
According to historical records, more than 2,000 German prisoners removed about 1.5 million landmines with their bare hands, and more than half of the German prisoners were killed or injured.
Why are most of the German prisoners of war children? Because in the late World War II, the German army was severely reduced, and people with unqualified physical fitness and age enlisted in the army. These half-old children became prisoners of the Allied forces not long after they went to the battlefield. Therefore, most of the young prisoners of war appear in the film.
In the Minefield poster, the young soldier has a skull in his eye. This directly points out the theme. These prisoners of war face death every day and work under the watchful eye of death. If they are not careful, they will be bombed to nothing.
The characters in "Minefield" are very full. Taking the Danish Sergeant Carl as an example, Carl's attitude towards these children of prisoners of war has gradually changed, which also coincides with people's reflection on the history of the past at this stage.
At first, Karl was full of contempt for the German prisoners of war, thinking they were invaders, and he would be furious when he saw the German prisoners of war touching the Danish flag; then Karl was stern to the German soldiers engaged in demining, even not giving them food, torturing them mentally and physically ; Later, Carl sympathized with the prisoners of war, and even wept for them; in the end, Carl bet his career and kept his original promise to give the children who got along day and night a future.
The boy didn't cry easily because he didn't reach the sad part. Carl's tears can be regarded as a watershed in the film's mood. When the audience follows Carl to approach these children, they realize that on an individual level, everyone is a victim of the war, and no matter which camp they are in, everyone is just cannon fodder.
Everyone who is forced to be involved in the war is reluctant to step into the quagmire of war, but many times they cannot help themselves. Once involved in the frenzy of war, the rest can only secretly pray and resign.
Once a war occurs, there is no right or wrong, only winners and losers.
Looking at the overall situation, everyone claims to be teachers of justice for the future of mankind.
Focusing on the individual, everyone is a tragedy, and the individual tries his best to survive the big wave.
Is there any justice in war? Whoever wins, whoever lives is justice. After all, the dead can't speak, and there is no justice at all. Justice is just a rhetoric of maximizing interests. Whoever wins the war will have the power to brainwash in the future, and whoever can advertise justice.
What happens is what happens, the basic rules are that simple and rude. Many people would say that it is inhumane to use prisoners of war to clear mines. In fact, those Virgin Marys who say it is inhumane have no understanding of the basic rules at all. The Nazis' way of demining was much simpler and cruder than the Danes' method, which directly tied a row of Jewish heads to the mines with chains. If the Madonnas lived in the world of The Man in the High Castle, would they still have such thoughts?
A good war film will not hostile countries without a bottom line, nor will it make up random things, nor will it try to provoke new hatred, but express it in an objective way, leaving room for modern people to reflect. If the screen is full of ripped devils hiding mines in the crotch or beautifying war, who will go back and reflect.
Only such anti-war reflections are persuasive. Of course, there are some shameless countries who lose the war without reflecting and still beautify the war. This means that the hammer of justice has not awakened their military dream.
Under the nest lay the finished egg,
Past experience guide for the future.
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