War is a high fever, and there is no good cough left

The film begins with repressed breathing and culminates in an outburst of anger at the sight of a German soldier holding a Danish flag, sketching an ordinary post-World War II Danish officer in just a few strokes. Then a group of German boys were sent to a centralized point to teach how to demining. These boys were too young, some of them would cry and cry for their mothers when they were injured. I wonder if these boys really understand what happened at that age, Maybe it was just one day that he was conscripted into the army by a government that was too hot, he went to a strange country, he was bullied by orders, he was captured, and he was sent to another place to be bullied.
Most of the filming is on a seaside, with a cool tone, just a field of grass and a few farmhouses, which is different from the colorful Denmark in our impression, which can be felt in many World War II films. Personally, I especially like this simple gradient tones, which are clean, powerless and desolate.
On this seaside, the officer met a group of boys, on the sand and weeds beach, to remove the mines laid by the German army during the war. The officer promised these boys that they could go home after completing the mission. Maybe at that time, these boys believed that they were the lucky ones who could go home. tomorrow, I don't know if there will be tomorrow.
At the end of the film, the officer secretly released the last surviving four boys back to Germany. He kept his promise, gave up the hatred at the beginning, lost the label of being invaded, and was born as a human being.

Recently, I have been reading some post-war accounts, and these scenes complete a history. For example, in China, suffering did not begin in 1840 and end in 1949. The war is naked suffering, but the trauma after the war is an eternal nightmare. I think the final end of the suffering of this nation will be that the people who experience it die one by one. Until the war becomes a record, the living will always wait for death in suffering. redemption.
Just like those boys, the shadows of war and mine demolition will linger for a lifetime, sleepless nights, until death.
No one is innocent and no one can escape.

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