By : If you managed to sit through the most recent Academy Awards ceremony, you might recall that an Iranian movie called The Salesman won the award for Best Foreign Language Film. The director, Asghar Farhadi, received a disproportionate share of attention because Iran was included in President Trump’s travel ban.
So the media chatter pertaining to the foreign language category was more about politics than the movies. And that’s a shame because one nominee, a Danish production called Land of Mine, is a bona fide red pill movie that didn’t get as much attention as it deserved.
In a sense, Land of Mine is a war film; in another sense, it is not. There is not one combat scene in the movie, but it takes place after the downfall of Germany in 1945. Towards the end of the war, the wehrmacht was running out of men so adolescents were pressed into service. The film concerns a group of young German POWs who are ordered to dig up land mines planted by their countrymen on the west coast of Denmark in anticipation of an Allied invasion that went elsewhere, namely Normandy.
So the media chatter pertaining to the foreign language category was more about politics than the movies. And that’s a shame because one nominee, a Danish production called Land of Mine, is a bona fide red pill movie that didn’t get as much attention as it deserved.
In a sense, Land of Mine is a war film; in another sense, it is not. There is not one combat scene in the movie, but it takes place after the downfall of Germany in 1945. Towards the end of the war, the wehrmacht was running out of men so adolescents were pressed into service. The film concerns a group of young German POWs who are ordered to dig up land mines planted by their countrymen on the west coast of Denmark in anticipation of an Allied invasion that went elsewhere, namely Normandy.
