After the mines under the sand are dug, the hatred in my heart cannot be eliminated

Darian 2022-03-26 09:01:10

The war starts with profit and ends with winning or losing. Whether it is the winner or loser, the righteous and the evil, the most terrifying ending is not the ruins left behind, nor the tragic state of ruined homes and dead bodies, but the planting of the dead. A fruit of hatred. The 2 million landmines on the coast of Denmark will always be dug one day, but the hatred of the Danes against Germany will never be eliminated.

Profits and losses are basically separated at the moment the war ends, but the hatred left behind, as well as the sins and tragedies caused by this hatred, spread like protracted side effects, or the retribution of the present world is on the body and mind of the exhausted young soul after the war. Or be used by the next military and political needs. The film Minefield puts the perspective on the encounter of a group of young German prisoners of war left in Denmark at the end of World War II, showing what the cost of war is from a very unique perspective.

Kindness from human nature and hatred from war have been in fierce confrontation in the heart of the sergeant major. The beginning of the story and the death of the dog in the middle made the hidden hatred for Germany temporarily defeat the kindness of human nature. He was violent and abusive, to vent his hatred of Germany, but human nature still makes him make good decisions most of the time.

Although we deliberately ignored a lot of deep excavations and had obvious sensational plots, the childish faces and pure hearts of the German teenagers also made us temporarily ignore their hideous faces in the concentration camps, and they killed half of them and released them. Half of this ending that takes care of the audience's feelings, although it has injected hope, seems to have lost a shocking ending. All in all, it is still a very good anti-war work. Three and a half!

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  • Vicenta 2022-03-14 14:12:25

    One after another young faces, one after another exploded corpses. A moody Danish officer, a group of poor German soldiers. This is a quiet movie, but a sad movie. I want to go home, how many people can go home in the end. We are not wrong, what is wrong is times and wars.

  • Eduardo 2022-03-20 09:02:21

    The war is truly over when the two sides that were enemies face each other in human face. An armistice is not just that the actual artillery fire is no longer ignited, but also that the artillery fire in the heart is completely extinguished. Demining is not only to eliminate mines on the Danish coastline, but also to eliminate mines in people's minds.

Land of Mine quotes

  • Lt. Ebbe Jensen: If they are old enough to go to war, they are old enough to clean up.

  • closing title card: After the war, more than 2000 German prisoners were forced to remove over 1.5 million landmines from Denmark's west coast.

    closing title card: Nearly half of them were killed or severely wounded.

    closing title card: Many were barely more than children.