The day after I finished watching the film, I expressed my feelings, but I had to postpone the work for two or three days, and there were only two or three images left in my mind, but it did not affect my shock to the film in the slightest.
It is said that the film is adapted from historical facts, revolving around the story of prisoners of war staying in the victorious country to clear mines after the defeat of the German army in World War II. At the end of the film, it is stated that about 2,000 German prisoners of war have cleared about 1.5 million landmines on the west coast of Denmark, and the casualties of these prisoners of war are more than half, and most of them are young people who are not bad.
The beginning of the film is just unfolded by a group of young recruits from the bomb disposal unit. The sergeant major's strong muscles and serious appearance reflect the solemn atmosphere in the film. The first 20 minutes of the film are relatively boring. For the Chinese people, they don’t know much about the history of the European battlefields of World War II. Compared with the hatred of fascism, the Chinese people hate the Japanese more. Digression: It is said that Hitler also secretly helped us back then.
After a short rehearsal, the prisoners of war contacted mine clearance in a confined space. The young faces and trembling hands made the viewing of the movie extraordinarily tense. The enormous pressure was devastating for the still young children, and "a bang" the children's first companion died.
Afterwards, the children completed their demining mission on a sandy beach. In such a high-pressure working environment, they could not get the proper supplementary mail. While stealing the feed covered with rat dung from the nearby farmhouse, the unwell child carried out demining under the strict request of the sergeant major, and unfortunately hit a landmine by mistake. In the follow-up, when the serial mines were eliminated, the information could not be transmitted in time, resulting in the absence of a child's body. The most tragic thing is that the land mines were about to be discharged. During the loading and transportation process, all the demolished landmines detonated together. The transportation site was extremely tragic, and no one survived.
There is no clear subdivision of the whole film, and the director tells the whole film like a story. The children's only belief is to go home. The most impressive ones in the film are "I want to go home" and "Germany needs me to rebuild". That heroic explosion scene: the children looking forward to the happiness of coming home, and the huge contrast of the barren land behind is the biggest shock point in the film.
The sergeant major is the character who changes the most in the film, from hating the German soldiers, punching the children, playing football with them, and taking the risk of sending four children home at the border. When the sergeant major's dog was unfortunately killed by a landmine, he even thought that these children were not as good as a dog. Indeed, what the sergeant major said when he stole the ration was that my dog and I ate it.
Throughout the film, the Danish military and the Danish aborigines act as "villains". But from another point of view, if the Japanese were defeated and we captured them, assuming that they were demined in the Yangtze River Delta or the Pearl River Delta (in fact, there is no meaning of burying mines), many people may not feel how cruel the Danes are. What the director did was to redeem this history through the sergeant major's mental journey, and to reflect his anti-war thought.
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