Director: Martin Zanrivert
Screenwriter: Martin Zanrivert Genre: Drama/History/War Country/Region of Production: Denmark/Germany Language: Danish/German/English Release Date: 2015-12-03 (Denmark) Duration: 100 minutes The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)
A tooth for a tooth, or a remorse for virtue? Repaying resentment with virtue, but how to repay virtue?
The film tells the story of the German army laying 1.5 million landmines on the west coast of Denmark during World War II. After the defeat, a large number of German prisoners of war were transported to these places to clear the landmines with their bare hands, and most of them were underage. juvenile. They finally completed this dark task at a heavy cost of casualties. This is a little-mentioned but real history. People on both sides of the war have deliberately avoided and downplayed this history, and the reasons for it are so heavy and complex that it humiliates mankind.
Teenager~ What is this concept? Looking at the childish faces in the film, you can't help but think of what you looked like when you were fifteen or sixteen years old, and what kind of life you were in at that time.
We go to school, we go out early and come back late with our schoolbags on our backs, we have morning self-study in the morning, and we have evening self-study in the evening. Backpacking goodies to go back to school.
They were at war, for some bloody speeches and some impulsive vows. To sacrifice their youth and blood for the motherland. I came to the battlefield in ignorance, and luckily escaped the hail of bullets. The war was finally over, and I could finally go home and sleep on my pillow. Although he became a prisoner, his heart was filled with excitement and anticipation of returning home. Unexpectedly, he was trained to learn demining, and then he was pulled by trucks to the boundless coastline.
"The mines laid by the Germans in Denmark were not allowed to be dug by them. Should the Danes be allowed to dig them?"
The reason is impeccable, and in the face of the great crimes committed by the Germans, it is logical and completely fine.
After lining up this beach, you can go home. The fluffy "promise" casually said has become the only hope for the children to persevere.
Sergeant Carl, a middle-aged soldier who has experienced brutal wars, hated the German army to the core, and only relieved his hatred when he saw that every German soldier wanted to go up and strangle himself to death. But now they are prisoners of war, especially these prisoners of war are still children.
Calm white sand beach, endless coastline, quiet and empty. The beautiful sandy beach is surrounded by long barbed wire, and there are warning signs to remind everyone that this is a dangerous beach that no one can set foot on. And the occasional explosion made the silence even more cruel to death.
Because of their status, this group of children was treated roughly like livestock, with no food, no beds, and their only job was to clear mines with their lives. Starvation deserves it, sickness deserves it, and bombing deserves it! You Germans do the evil you do yourself to clean up!
However, human beings are warm-blooded animals with feelings, with warmth, family, friendship, love, joy, sadness, happiness, despair, and various complex emotions, as well as more subtle melancholy, hesitation, hesitation, and confusion.
During the period of getting along with the individual, the sergeant and the children gradually developed feelings, and the contrast between this warmth and cruel reality made both sides entangled and almost divided.
These children are the German army, but the German army is not equal to these young lives. Soldiers are state machines that should not have feelings, and children should not be in the ranks of the soldiers.
The sergeant is a rude and irritable man who has been tempered by the war, but he is a kind-hearted uncle next door. When the war is over, the strong feelings of hatred and hatred between the country and the family will gradually fade away, and normal human nature will come to my heart. With his conscience, he asked silently over and over again.
Treating anti-human behavior with anti-human behavior, is justice or the continuation of evil?
When the group of children completed the prescribed range of demining tasks, only four remained. Hopeful that they could go home, they were transported to another beach for mine clearance. No one cared about the so-called promise before, and didn't plan to remember such a promise at all.
Sergeant finally gave his own human-based choice. He took a great risk and secretly smuggled the four surviving children to the border and let them run on their way home.
Why did you do this?
Speechless.
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