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Tate 2022-03-28 09:01:08

After watching it in the middle of the night, I felt extremely heavy. Different from the hail of bullets in previous anti-war films, viewers usually look at the German Nazis in that period of history with hatred, including Schindler's List or saving Private Ryan, but this film is the opposite. Dao, with a calmer tune, truly restores the history of a group of German prisoners of war being taken to dig mines from the perspective of the German army, so as to reflect on the suffering brought by the war to all parties. It's not that we want to justify the name of the German army. During World War II, the German army was notorious for building Nazi concentration camps. Their crimes cannot be erased, but back to the individual, the film said that more than 2,000 German prisoners of war were sent to Denmark after World War II. About half of the people were seriously injured or killed in the process of digging mines. After these prisoners of war took off their military uniforms, we turned our original criticism of the German army as a whole to these ordinary individuals, only to find that many of them were just adults. In the near future, young boys will also miss home and their parents. This is very different from our impression of the German army in that period. It is unexpected but reasonable. This is the point that I was more shocked and sighed when I watched it. The young boys in the film keep saying "I want to go home", but across the landmines that may detonate at any time, how fragile life becomes at that moment, let alone going home, you can safely see the sun tomorrow It may have been a luxury for them at that time. I have to say that war distorts human nature too much. In the film, in order to keep these young people from starving, Sergeant Carl ran to the base to get food and was seen by Lieutenant Eb. He ran to humiliate those young people and borrowed money from them. This knock on Sergeant Carl "Don't have abnormal sympathy for the Germans", this is the scar on the hearts of both sides who have been beaten by the trauma of the war for many years. He was still licking his wounds, unable to forgive each other at all.
Therefore, we can only hope that there will be no more wars, and no more innocent people will lose their lives and health as a result of this. I hope, world peace.

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  • Serenity 2022-03-23 09:02:46

    I won't dare to play the game of minesweeper again in the short term... Vivid taught some movies what restraint is and what is restoration

  • Trycia 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Finally achieved the wish to watch the movie! Watching Danish and German films in the cinema for the first time. The long coastline of Danish mines is a long way home for the German demining boys after the war. "Please don't hate him!" The words of the young boy who was unable to shout in grief to the Danish sergeant made me cry. The emotional changes of the uncle officer are intriguing. Fresh meats are just a bunch of poor war scapegoats. Louis Hofmann really resembles Torres!

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.