#Film and television miscellaneous talk # only villains and women are difficult to raise, and this sentence of the old master has once again been horribly confirmed by the Danish movie "Hunting". If these two factors happen to be concentrated together, the consequences are almost devastating for a person.
The little girl in kindergarten used the topic of sexual assault to accuse an adult male teacher, just because she longed for more attention from him, the precocious girl has vaguely felt the love of this feeling, and after being rejected, she will also be angry and retaliate, she does not know that this accusation is tantamount to a flying bomb on an adult, which can blow up his life. In the picturesque town of Denmark, it seems that the folk customs are simple, but behind it is the self-righteousness, simple and rough of the whole town, just like the positive and negative sides of the human coin, good and evil, no one can say which side is true.
The director's shots have always been as clear as the Nordic air, calm, silent, slow narrative, and little by little the emotions are substituted. The performance of the male protagonist is also, almost no excuse for himself, and even a little clumsily wishful thinking that the girl's father (his best friend who has played from childhood to adulthood), the head of the working kindergarten will believe that he has done nothing, and in the end his emotions are not completely out of control, although it seems to be on the verge of getting out of control, the process of watching the film is heart-wrenching, and finally to the last shot at the end of the film, no one knows where the shot that almost killed the male protagonist came from, and the director did not explain, It just makes you understand that even if you don't do anything, even if the people of the town know that you have been wronged, the deported and disgusted people still can't go back. This shot set all the spectators there, cold.
There seems to be a tradition in Denmark that when boys reach a certain age, they can issue hunting licenses, which is almost a rite of passage. At the end of the film, the son of the male protagonist receives a hunting license, indicating that every adult can not only hunt, but also the prey of others, and the bullet is a rumor, a lie, a deception, and a frame.
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