The director of this film always likes such brutal repetition. In the same way, shortly after the start of the film, the simple practice place, the semi-enclosed room, the boys enter the room one by one, with similar movements, scenes, and pictures. You will not be confused about the content of this exercise because of this repetition. Feeling numb, instead, the heart will follow each boy who enters the practice room, with their breathing and trembling hands, hanging tightly. It is life, not a machine, that goes in. I hope everyone can spend it safely. Until, with an explosion, a boy took his own life on the practice field.
When they first arrived in the minefield, Danish officers led the gang of little boys. In the eyes of Danish officers, these little boys were an infuriating presence, simply because they were German. Not giving food, not caring about their health, not trusting them, to the point of killing a child in a minefield with a high fever and vomiting. Such a small child, with a thin body and a tender face, will only call out "Mom, I want to go home" when it is helpless and in pain. Perhaps because of this, the officers began to realize that they were not the weapons of the German war, but the children of German mothers, and the anger in their hearts gradually subsided and their eyes softened.
All over Denmark, everyone knew what happened to these German boys. Only the boys themselves don't know. They believe in the Danish army commander, keep their promises and go home as long as they get rid of the mines buried in their own country; they will name the little bugs and little mice in the grass and talk to them; A restaurant where you can have enough to eat; they will rush to the minefield to rescue the little girl when the Danish women call for help; they will invent tools for demining to improve the efficiency of demining...
You see, they don't know anything, just like Denmark The people of the country and their relatives in their own homes. They have even measured how cruel reality is, and they still fantasize that they can have a future.
Don't blame innocent people for the crimes of a country's power grabbers. Even in war, they are not inhuman and thoughtless tools, but individuals with beautiful visions and profound souls.
While watching this film, I thought of another film "All Quiet on the Western Front", in which there is a paragraph about two soldiers talking and laughing with each other, saying that after fighting for so long, he still doesn't understand the meaning of war, Why let the poor and innocent people take part in the fight? Wouldn't it be nice to just let the leaders of the two conflicting countries choose one venue for a showdown... I really like the realism and delicacy of the picture and narrative of this film, as well as the name of this film. In a trench, a young man tried to reach out to catch a butterfly parked on a bullet casing, but was found by the enemy and shot dead. The news of the young man's country that day was "No war on the Western Front..."
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