At the beginning of the film, Lucas jumped into the icy lake in full view, and came to an extremely cold winter swimming. This is an unknown event. It indicates that the people Lucas will endure next stand. The "hunting" of him on the commanding heights of morality, a storm of public opinion with all kinds of words, ruthlessly threw the inept Lucas into the ice lake.
From the beginning to the end, the film has maintained stern restraint. The lens never over-exaggerates the emotions, but strives to be an expressionless bystander, which is as unshakable as the rules of the world. However, the emotional tension of the story itself forms a strong contrast with the coldness of the image style. The cold and hot makes Lucas’ pain even more desperate. Everyone will not doubt whether their judgments are wrong. No matter what the argument will be. A hundred mouths can't argue.
What's more, Lucas himself is an ordinary person with a dull personality. He is the most inconspicuous kind of good person in the crowd. He lives in a quiet and unobtrusive small town and does a humble preschool education job because of the frustration of the years. It’s good, or I’m not good at words, anyway, I broke up with my wife, divorced and single, and raised a dog named Fanny. Leisure time is hunting and drinking with the buddies in the small town who grew up playing with them. It’s an ordinary can’t No matter how ordinary Danish man. Passing by on the street, I guess you won't look back at him. But it was such a good person who was used to warming up in the group. When he was thrown into the whirlpool of public opinion, he discovered that everyone's mouth is so hurtful, and it is harder to prove innocence than to go to heaven.
Mads Mikkelsen is known as "the sexiest man in Denmark". He has an angular and determined face. In fact, according to his facial features, he is not a standard handsome man, but he exudes the temperament of a suffering saint that is rare among the crowd. It is unforgettable, I think he can play Jesus. It is precisely this characteristic of the victims that fits the character of Lucas, the hero of the film.
Lucas is a kind-hearted Danish man. He likes children, so he willingly does the work of preschool education. The gentleness and patience shown in treating children makes him release a religious aura. He was enthusiastic to help others, but he automatically assumed this responsibility when he saw no one to pick up Kara I told you already". When faced with the framing of the crowd, he restrained the urge to retaliate against the society. After the misunderstanding was resolved, he tolerated the evil of the crowd, and even was willing to continue to get close to Kara without avoiding suspicion. Although he is ordinary, he is extraordinary, because he is like a modern Jesus, able to love others as himself, and to kill others, even though everyone has thrown stones on his head without arguing.
But as far as the audience can know, there is no bad guy in the town. They are even good guys in the standard sense. Their crimes happen in the name of justice. In their hearts, they are all brave incarnations of justice, facing the hidden "perversions" in their self-thinking small towns, from kindergarten principals to supermarket clerks, they did not choose to be silent or the wisdom of the Chinese people to "just stop taking care of others." ", but the sentiment was infuriated, and the sword of justice was used to hunt "pedophile" Lucas within the scope of morality. They are all good people with courage. Is this little girl Carla mean by nature? The director has long used a scene of Kara dancing in the snow to show his forgiving standpoint. On Christmas Eve, Carla and her brother were building a Christmas hut, and his brother was snowing the hut with an artificial snower. Cara said that the snow had “fallen on the elf”. Then she ran out of the house and danced happily in the snow. Even though Lucas was in an almost impossible situation because of the ignorant retaliatory lies, the director used a heavy snowfall to cleanse her ignorance of the felony, and also cleanse the original sin of the elder brother who was the author of the pornographic pictures to Cara. Cleaned the whole town of the evil that was staged due to misunderstanding.
The name of this movie is cruel and profound. He implies that human beings who consider themselves the spirit of all things, although they have high self-esteem because of arrogance, in many cases, human society is no different from the jungle, those who step on the "grid line" People are no different from the deer in the forest who accidentally break into the hunting area. They will be hunted mercilessly, but the latter is because of survival, desire to conquer or even simple boredom, and the former is to stand on the moral high ground to exercise killing and decisiveness. This kind of moral hunting, in most cases, is God’s will and justice. However, where there is a verdict, there are unjust, false, and wrong cases. The serious allegations against Lucas are completely unwarranted.
However, Lucas was also a deer hunter, and he held a shotgun shortly before the beginning of the film and killed a clean and innocent forest deer. Because this is a Danish rule, when a boy is 18 years old, he can get a hunting license, he will walk into the forest and become a conqueror of the forest. Lucas is a good man, but no one can testify whether he has never hunted others in the jungle of mankind in the name of justice. He holds a shotgun in his hand, and his hand is also stained with the blood of an innocent forest deer, but this time, he has become a prey from a deer hunter.
Good people also do evil because of ignorance, because of public opinion, because they are not tested, because they only want to believe what they are willing to believe, because of their complex human nature, and because they think they are the defenders of justice. The pedophile turmoil is just an appearance. The most incomprehensible thing is that they are righteous, but they have all done evil. This is the most thought-provoking point in the film. The more terrifying point is that you and I are among the people, and you and I may both sin. Especially in the Internet age, law enforcement and crimes follow the trend in parallel. At this time, it is necessary to maintain a little room for final discussion.
In addition to the slow unfolding of the core events, the film also filmed the pleasant scenery of the Danish town, but under this intoxicating and peaceful beauty, the brutal hunt for Lucas is proceeding in tacit understanding. As the residents of the town escalated their rejection of Lucas, this kind of beauty and sin coexisted to a climax in the rainstorm scene in which Lucas buried Fanny: on a hazy and dark rainstorm day, the fragrance of lilacs, Luca With a heartbreak, Si buried her pet dog Fanny, who was killed by venting her anger. The picture of this scene is so beautiful that it is shocking, but it is set in the background of the innocent Fanny's vain death, which is the climax of the drama in addition to the church scene where "sin and righteousness" coexist.
"Hunting" has another very peculiar point. In the movie, the little girl Cara has been careful not to step on the grid lines on the ground, and even lost her way for the first time because of this (it may also be to conceal that her parents did not pick her up on time. Lie), and the audience should have a deep memory of the scene where she counted the railings under bright sunlight. She is a person who does not want to go beyond the rules. Violating the "rules on the ground" has become the biggest fear in her young heart. When the residents of the town criticized Lucas, the director designed this typical image of "defending secular rules" to embody a little girl. This is the director’s most ingenuity. He made Lucas a prey and a deer hunter at the same time, and he also turned children who were not completely socialized into faithful followers of the rules of the world. At this point, it embodies the mature philosophy and dialectical concept of director Thomas Vinterberg, which is much higher than the number of domestic movies where good people have no shortcomings and bad people are all sins.
Towards the end of the film, when Lucas, the former prey, and the little girl Cara who hurt him met in a room, Cara fell into the fear of the first meeting-in order to be afraid of stepping on the grid lines on the ground, I would rather Stopped in place motionless. Lucas smiled and said to her: "Don't you want to step on the grid lines on the ground? It's not easy at all." Then, he walked over and picked Cara up and stepped on these "rules on the ground" under his feet. . Lucas is a brave lover who exists like Jesus. He believes in love, in the bright side of human nature, and believes that people's desire for love can break through the shackles of secular rules. These secular rules are difficult to remember. Just take Lucas’s experience in the film, including: don’t be nosy, even out of goodwill; know how to avoid suspicion, especially when you are a divorced. Of single men, even the daughter of a friend’s family, can’t get along alone; choose a job carefully. Men’s preschool education is inherently more risky. However, Lucas still chooses to believe that love can transcend these secular laws and "wisdom" after suffering great harm, because he believes that love is innocent.
The adult world is full of malice and rules. In most cases, it does not allow absolute innocence in another adult. Lucas’s situation is very similar to Michael Jackson, who was caught up in the child molestation. Jackson has always liked to be with children because he had no childhood. He is like Peter Pan on this dirty planet. His innocence is in the eyes of people who are familiar with the rules. He is always suspicious. When he wants to blackmail Chandler. When his family framed him, he was as indefatigable as Lucas. Even after Jackson’s death, the people who framed him personally admitted that what they had said was a lie, and the stigma on him could not be completely removed. There are still many people’s understanding that "he is a shameful "Pedophilia" there. This is the powerful effect of human public opinion. It is a double-edged sword, which can inflict critical strikes on those who wantonly trample on the rules and injure the innocent. Moreover, it also carries the original sin, always blindly conforming to the crowd, not falsely seeking evidence, self-righteous, and lazy and lazy, and throws those who are rounded up into hell even if they are innocent. At the end, a year after that was the truth, someone in the forest still shot Lucas. This stain will accompany him throughout his life.
In this catastrophe of Lucas, in addition to the destructive nature of the injustice case, the distrust of Lucas by the people around him hurt him even more. The essence of human beings is loneliness. Everyone can only be locked in oneself. We cannot fully understand a person. Because of life experience and experience teaching, we all believe that there are many dark places hidden in human nature, which inspires people and people. Distrust between. In the movie, this fragile trust in interpersonal relationships is truly reproduced: when a person is accused of a sexual assault by a seemingly pure child, almost everyone around him has doubts about him, whether it is getting along day and night. Colleagues, friends who grew up with him, their girlfriends, and even their sons can’t assert that “he must be innocent and I trust him”, even though they all thought Lucas was a good and trustworthy person before.
In the film, only Marcus’s godfather never doubted Lucas from beginning to end. He is also in the film, besides Lucas, the only person in the town who wears glasses. Even if civilization is like Denmark, mankind still retains its jungle nature, but the clichéd and outdated image of civilization is still efficacious. It represents the rooting of civilization in people’s hearts. In his in-depth communication, he chose to believe in his own rational judgment at a moment when everyone was suspicious, to be a public opinion against the wind, and to believe and support Lucas unwaveringly. This is the immortal meaning of civilization itself. It can lead to break away from animal ignorance and blind obedience, strengthen one's own wisdom and judgment, avoid falling into the evil of everyone, and push a white lamb down the cliff. Marcus also doubted his father under what others said, but when he saw the photos of his father growing up in the dark, he chose to stand firmly on his father's side because: he is just like me , Like everyone else, came from youth and purity. He didn't believe that his father was a heinous bad man. Even if the whole world doesn't believe him and is attacking him, he can't leave him in the wilderness. Marcus's love, like Godfather's independent judgment based on civilization, is an important force to support Lucas out of the quagmire.
However, the ending of "Hunting" is multiple and open. Not only is it impossible to know whether the murderer in the forest will fire a second shot at Lucas, but also, this kind of hunting license and ancestral shotgun are awarded to Marcus. The plot of the movie was also informed to the audience in advance. As soon as the sun rises tomorrow, this young man will walk into the forest and become the conqueror of the forest. The sins of good people will never stop, it will continue forever.
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