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@FlyRy @StraxStrax @HHR @Nature Boy Ric Flair @Sensitive Blake Griffin
I'm just tagging a bunch of folks for this movie specifically so pay attention you fukks. Under Sandet aka Land Of Mine tells the story of how after WWII, The Danish coastline had to be cleared of land mines and the country employed prisoners of war to do so, and said prisoners were almost entirely teenagers and young adults. The movie follows one such group, led by an angry German-hating Sgt. who, of course, slowly but surely becomes conflicted as the suffering of those boys starts to weigh its toll on him. I'm pretty sure I mentioned the famous anecdote before about Hitchcock and the difference between suspense and action (four men sit at a table with a bomb underneath it, as long as the bomb doesn't go off, you build suspense, but if/when you blow it up, you have action), and that's important here because there are scenes in this movie that are pure suspense. Endless suspense, a constant sense of dread and fear for the lives of those boys because roughly half the movie consists of scenes of them lying in the sand clearing goddamn landmines. And despite a lot of Hollywood-esque sentimentality, it is still a harsh, uncompromising watch of innocence being lost. So you definitely want to remember this title because it will definitely be making waves once it starts to drop here and there. 4/5
I'm in. European WWII films might be my favorite sub-sub-genre of films
