The film is adapted from real events. After World War II, the German army was defeated. The Danish authorities forced a large number of German prisoners of war to clean up the mines that they had buried on Danish beaches during the war. 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 them were killed or injured.
What's more frightening is that most of these prisoners of war are children.
In this movie, it is also a group of children who have not yet faded from their childishness. They come to a foreign country as prisoners of war and are engaged in the most dangerous jobs. The most frequent sentence in their conversation is: I want to go home.
The film really enters the plot from the training of a new recruit bomb disposal unit. The instructor told them from the beginning that the Danes would not welcome you with open arms, you were just here to disarm the bombs.
After a short simulation training, the recruits in a row began to take turns to enter a semi-enclosed environment to practice the removal of real landmines.
One after another, this segment lasted for nearly ten minutes in the movie, which is simply a huge flag.
Without confirming the protagonist's halo, we all know that someone will accidentally become "the first person to die" next.
After a long wait, all audiences are suffering. On the one hand, I was a little "expected" that the explosion would come soon, but I was afraid of the explosion.
Sure enough, the explosion finally came. The children faced their first dead partner. They began to realize that no one cares about their lives here, and everyone here seems to be expecting their death.
The movie officially begins with such sad music.
After completing the training, they were taken to a beach and began to clear mines under the supervision of the sergeant. The Chief Sergeant was a soldier who hated the Nazis and even punched and kicked German prisoners of war.
The white sandy beach, the sky and the sea in the distance are as blue as the sea, and the scenery is as beautiful as a resort area. However, it was also the place where the Germans believed that the Allied forces would land, and thousands of mines were planted. This beach will be where they "fight" against fate, hunger, disease, landmines, and the Danish people and soldiers who hate the Nazis.
Soon, they ushered in their second dead partner. Suffering from severe hunger and disease, he accidentally touched a landmine, his hands were blown beyond recognition, and he died in the hospital. The third partner died in a chain mine and was directly blown to the bone. They began to be afraid and began to lose confidence. They are afraid that they will not be able to return home, and they are worried that they will not be able to realize their vision for the future.
The most tragic loss occurred at the end of the story. When they were about to complete their mission, they finally took all the removed mines onto the truck and transported them away. An accident happened. A group of children died in this accident, it was like hell.
Along with witnessing the tragic death of one child after another, the master chief who hated the Nazis also began to become gentle with everyone. He stole food for everyone and took them to play football.
The movie has a short reversal plot. The sergeant who had already started to treat these children kindly because his beloved dog was unfortunately killed by a landmine, he became violent and angry again, and even began to torture the children as if they were dogs. Perhaps in their eyes, the life of a Nazi is indeed inferior to a dog.
Of course, the movie promotes the glory of humanity after all. At the end of the story, the sergeant completed his own salvation and finally helped the four surviving children escape back to Germany.
The pace of the whole movie is very slow, and there are no climaxes and conflicts in the plot. But in this movie, every minute there may be a child "getting a lunch box". This is the most alarming aspect of this movie. This beautiful sandy beach full of truckloads of children came, and only a pitiful four had the chance to go home in the end.
But in retrospect, the Danish soldiers were not wrong. The Nazis were always regarded as the devil before and after World War II. Even if they were children, they were also the children of the devil. The war machine drives the opposing parties to hate each other desperately.
In war, whether it is the Nazis or the Allies, in fact, there is no humanity to the enemy. Pete in "Furious" can shoot the surrendered enemy without hesitation, and the Nazis can also slaughter the Jews without hesitation. The war was so cruel, and even for a period of time after the war, people were still cruel.
But in this movie, the children awakened the humanity in the master's heart with their vivid lives. With the sound of explosions of landmines and the helpless cry of the children, the sergeant slowly broke away from a war machine and became a living human being.
The war has passed, it is time to let go of the hatred; perhaps the war will come.
Finally, Amway, this film has two lineups at this year's Beijing International Film Festival. Perhaps friends who have time can experience the fragility of life and the glory of humanity on the big screen.
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