"Minefield" is a historical drama film released in 2015 directed by Martin Zanrivert. Maybe you have never heard of the director or you have only seen the poster of the movie and haven't seen the movie, then you Just missed a good anti-war movie.
"Minefield" is a film based on the true history of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II, when Germany believed that the Allies would land on the west coast of Denmark, where they planted more than 1.5 million landmines. After the end of World War II, Germany surrendered and left behind a lot of German prisoners of war. Among them, more than 2,000 very young German soldiers were left to do unarmed demining work. During the demining period, the Danish soldiers beat and kicked them, and they did not even have food. In the end, only half of the more than 2,000 soldiers were left, and the other half fell on this "beautiful" Danish land.
The plot of "Minefield" is roughly compounded with historical events. The film mainly tells the story of a 14-person demining team being guarded by a Danish sergeant who hated Nazis very much, doing demining work on the Danish coastline. The Danish sergeant, who originally hated the Nazis, slowly removed his equipment and completed the baptism between people because of getting along with the team members. Finally decided to help the surviving children. Through this small part, the film shows the multifaceted nature of people and discusses "redemption" and redemption. The little German soldiers finally completed their "redemption", and Sergeant Karl finally completed his redemption.
This movie also opened up a topic. Perhaps many people have said that after the soldier puts on his clothes, he should complete the responsibilities that the soldier should complete. But was it really so at that time? Maybe young soldiers don't even know why they are on the battlefield, why they are fighting. So why pay for other people's mistakes? Just like the young soldiers inside, the country may have surrendered as soon as they entered the battlefield, and they have to pay for the bombs planted by their brothers. In fact, the movie finally gave us the audience the answer. When a soldier removes all defenses and equipment, he is a human being. There is no winning or losing, no hatred, no race, only close contact between people.
"Minefield" not only uses the plot to express the cruelty of the war, but also the rhythm control and the rendering of the camera atmosphere. It can be said that the rhythm of the film is very tight and the rhythm of standard genre films. In the movie, the beautiful and calm beach is used as the background, and the terrifying explosions are reminded here, and the audience's emotions and atmosphere are instantly controlled to the extreme. Every demolition scene in the movie can lift the audience all the way to the throat.
In the movie, due to the many characters but not as a result of being masked, the most personable character in the movie is Carl Zhongwei. This character is driven by the plot and portrayed in the background of the characters, resulting in a very fast transformation of the character image, but the transformation of the character is very fast. Very realistic and natural, and the most perfect character in the movie. Other young characters may not perfectly present every face they memorize due to time issues and rhythm scales, but here the director is very clever with the mapping of lines to let us remember this group of children.
To sum up, the film is fast-paced, full of plot, and full of tears. There is no war scene in the movie, but it also perfectly presents the cruelty of war. A short story is used in the movie to trigger a lot of topics worthy of discussion. This movie can be called an excellent anti-war movie. 10/9.5 points
In times of war, our enemy is "war"
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