The Hunt is a cautionary tale about the dangers of jumping to conclusions to quickly, and how good intentions if taken too far, can result in the opposite of justice. My review of one of the best films of the last decade, The Hunt.
Mads Mikkelsen is so good as Hannibal Lecter. I need to re-watch the King Arthur movie. As an American I didn't realize how much Rome influenced Britain so it was a fresh fun take. And Kiera Knightly is hot. And the movie's Knight-ly so it fits
Strangely it seems , thers nothing lucas can do to defend his situation. He'd be seen as guilty if he argues his innocence or as in the film, he remains stunned by the accusation. His move to just walk into the church is everything as actions speak louder than words
A Danish person actually moved to America and worked in a nursery, where his female colleague suddenly chose to accuse him of touching one of the kids. He was interrogated by the police who beat him, lied to him and told him he could only leave if he gave a confession and that it didn't matter if he really did it or not. So he gave the confession under duress, got sentenced and years later when the colleague felt bad and came forward they released him and he killed himself. Probably one of the stories, as a Dane, that I have a hard time not hating America for, but as the movie shows this can happen anywhere. When you look at how people treat people who are accused of pedophilia online you see people call for execution and castration before they even mention seeing actual evidence. There probably isn't a crime worse than pedophilia but there isn't a crime that is worse to be wrongfully accused of.
That's not exactly how it went down though. The police did use the REID method on him, but that doesn't include beatings, although his trip to Rikers might have resulted in beatings from inmates. Also, he didn't kill himself. He died of a heart attack only 27 years old. Whether or not his condition after the ordeal and subsequently trauma had any role in this, is unclear to this day. For people interested in the case, his name was Malthe Thomsen and was at the time of the accusation in learning at International Preschools on Manhattan.
This movie literally destroyed me, it made me suffer; To know that a life can be annihilated so easily and how fragile an reputation can be, made me rethink a lot of aspects from my own life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us you gained a subscriber, please keep creating more amazing content like this.
I’ve almost got in to the same situation. I am a behavior interventionist and I was helping a grade 6 kid. One day I asked her to turn her phone to the office because she’s not suppose to use it in class. She then proceed to call me a “pedophile” and “why do you always stare at me, do you like little girls?” I reported the situation to the admin right away. Luckily the vice principal was very supportive of me and doesn’t take any bullshits from her. Tho after couple days later, I went away for a week due to elbow surgery, she then told another student who I was working with that I had been suspended without pay for a week due to “staring at her butt”. Which makes the student (who has autism) afraid to work with me…
My method is: I report immediately anything that goes wrong with the others. I don't need to argue over the truth. Confucius says: "If someone thinks wrongly of you, live your life to the best such that no one could prove otherwise". There are methods to get out of such situations, you just gotta be swift.
(spoilers) I think one of the most interesting characters is Klara's brother, Torsten. Him and his friend showed klara porn and gave her the words that she repeated and led to the lie. I definitely think that the shooter at the end was him, most likely out of guilt and some sort of denial. The scene with him and klara making gingerbread houses is also great.
@@videodord How does it? lol. How would his guilt manifest itself in shooting the victim of his act? He was a teenage boy and did a typical teenage boy thing. The point of the last scene is to show that there will always be people who still believe he's guilty. The shooter was one such person.
I was removed from college permanently, because a girl I was seeing cheated on her boyfriend and couldn't take responsibility for her actions. So she told her friends that I sexually harassed her (everything was consentual at the time). Word got out quickly. "He was being weird and touched my butt". My "friends" turned their backs on me. Never trust people, that's what I learned. Its been one year since then.
I hope you're doing fine now, I look at it as an event that filters those who are called "friends". A true friend won't take this as a fact without a solid proof
This movie was hard to watch but I consider it one of the best foreign films made in the last decade. Mads Mikkelsen is one of the best actors out there and he can just about play any role and nail it. He shines in the films where he is able to immerse himself in the character and show the full range of emotion. For all foreign movie buffs, Denmark is known for excellent movies that go deep and hit right in the gut. I would recommend seeking out all of Mads Mikkelsen's Danish films. You will be amazed.
@@Brosak. the kid has guardians, in this case parents. Clearly the parents didn't do well neither to stop their sons or relatives from watching illegal video materials. They feel it is absolutely fine to make false accusations against innocent people.
What I've learnt from the movies is that everybody lies, even kids. They sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth. The hard thing is that adults can miss it and accuse wrong person
One of the best foreign movies I’ve ever watch it is this. It gave me mixed emotions and made me furious that Lucas was seen as a monster by everybody despite being completely innocent. I just find it terrifying that one lie can spread like wildfire and ruins one’s life… stuff like this happens and it’s scary.
My only critique of the story is that it never occurred to him to get a lawyer the entire time. A good lawyer would have cleared this situation up promptly. Other than that, it's an excellent film
In the interview mads himself talked about that he said in Denmark isn't necessary to get lawyer. And he said most of American talk about lawyer .but judicial system is different.
One of the most relatable characters ever written. I found myself trying explain to the other characters what they'd gotten wrong. But there was not way to do it apart from saying "I didn't do it". What can you do? Terrifying.
One of the best movies I've ever seen, and one I never wish to see again. I felt so angry and desperate, so sorry for Lucas, wish all town burned to the ground... Mads is excellent actor (see "Valhalla Rising", 2009) , and Scandinavian movies are generally superb. Must see but be careful, this is no easy movie, not movie you can watch cheerfully, eating pop corn. You will rather start to question everything you know and all your life weeks after.
This film was great and frustrating in equal measure. The complete lack of justice and resolution (not withstanding the faux kiss and make up resolution at the end) made me want to shake every single person in this film which is a sign of compelling acting and well written realistic writing. Worth a watch if you don’t mind being angered by the total unfairness of it all.
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The truth that they couldn't handle wasn't that he didn't do it, it was the truth that she lied. To put all your belief in a child and treat their word in the same regard as sainthood is tradition because the opposite would mean that children are capable of corruption as they, the adults, refuse to recognise that they are the very people that corrupted the child's innocence. And once this irrational step is taken, all rationality fades away: you spit on a child's face, you beat up a teenage boy, you punch a man buying groceries, you kill a man's dog, you shoot at him. Clearly a film on how people are run by emotions rather than logic.
This movie broke me, it was so upsetting I can't even explain it. And the fact that this stuff acc is being a lot common when teachers and cares are being framed. Don't get me wrong a lot of the time stuff like this acc happen which is devastating
The people who have hit Lucas deserve jail. You are not lessened to being applied unlawful penalties even if you have a quarrel with a supposedly guilty person.
@@2612563I mean it absolutely is. They would be charged with and convicted of assault and battery. They may argue self defence (of another) but it’s unlikely.
This shit legitimately happened to my stepdad. He had one biological daughter before he met my mother and a biological son to her. His daughter mother is.... to put it lightly.... a psychopath. And when his daughter was 12 the mother accused him of molesting her. She went to the cops and when her story didn't add up, she admitted she'd lied about the whole thing. The daughter denied it from day one. But his reputation was destroyed in his hometown. Luckily Australia is a large place and we live 2,000km away from that evil narcissist.
IMO the most important moment of this film is the warning shot fired by his son in the last scene. The seed of doubt as to his fathers truthfullness and in particular his friends who did not betray him from the large square house. It is purposely left up to the viewer to discern whether Lucas was a victcim of said groupthink or he was backed by a group (in a large house with the mentioned basement and Klara not wanting to exit over the floor patterns) . Why would his son fire a shot unless his mind had been changed, given that he was so onside for the whole film untill the hunting sequence.
You know what's truly scary about this film? How videos like this exist, with comment sections jumping the shark and being instantly convinced that Lucas is an innocent man, victim to the unfortunate lie of a confused girl. How people are so quick to assume that just because a story is framed one way, it must be taken at face value. If you want to get all legal about this, let's get one thing clear: very few key facts are shown about the crimes that might or might have not transpired. That's how it goes in court with cases like these, where there are suspicions of sexual abuse linked with several kids: kids are terrible witnesses and don't understand much of the world, so their way of dealing with trauma is mysterious and usually silent. But predators are greedy and eventually when you've created enough victims you will get "unlucky" once and a victim will manifest enough signs for the right people to be concerned. Just hear me out, is it not possible in your mind that Lucas was a nonce and that he did abuse those kids? How many kids (to be conservative, 3) spoke about the same room with the same person. And one scene after we see Markus in a basement room with paintings that matches that description? The film drops many deeply subtle clues and us as viewers, the first time watching the movie, either don't pick up on them or choose to ignore them in favour of being overwhelmed with only that which is clearly being presented to us. So please think on it, the plot and moral might not be as simple as you want it to be. If you feel prepared to entertain the idea, watch this video with English subtitles: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zZ7bXc9OcVw.html
True, however, Lucas' home has no basement and if you're talking about the basement of his cousin, it's probably the exact reason the kids talked about it, because their parents got it in their head since they all frequently met there. Lucas didn't have a car and people always drove to that house so it's highly unlikely Lucas just took kids to that location, even if he had a car, which he doesn't. This would be ridiculous. Lucas being sexual with just Klara in the kindergarten would be a theory that could make more sense, however, there's many points proposing the opposite. Klara has the exact words she said about Lucas from her brother and his friend showing her porn earlier that day. Plus, she made the heart and lied to Lucas that it wasn't from her, making him reject it, which obviously upset her. She then told the head of the kindergarten, after she recited the words of her brother and his friend that Lucas gave her the heart, which we clearly know, is also a lie. All in all a somewhat possible theory but everything kinds points against it
Your theory is quite interesting, but unfortunately completely refuted by the director of the film, Thomas Vinterberg, who in an interview stated that the character Lucas is 100% innocent. They initially built the plot of the film in such a way that for the viewer there was no mysterious "guilty or innocent?". He said from the very beginning "Lucas is a good man who could never hurt a child". And this was done in order to show how quickly hysteria and panic cover people's minds. Not in order to turn the film into a horror about the elusive Freddy Krueger killing kids in a boiler room. Plus a comment about the video you linked to. Yes, many of the theses presented there are very interesting and give a look at history from a different perspective. BUT! 1. The Actor and the Director directly say that Lucas is not guilty. 2. Many facts such as "using the basement in the godfather's house", "paintings", "he would have reacted much more if he was innocent" look very far-fetched. Because how do you imagine a person leading a small child through someone else's house full of people? 3. All accusations from parents did not appear after they "notice something strange in their children" or in the "behavior of the educator." No, only after the teacher, after consulting with a clearly incompetent psychologist, raised a panic. 4. The paintings were not in the basement. They were on the main floor. Marcus walked in the dark so as not to wake anyone. And these pictures are shown in order to show that EVERYONE who harmed Lucas knew him from childhood. Thus, showing that those whom Lucas considered his closest friends instantly turned away from him, leaving him alone with the chaos going on around him. 5. I would also like to draw your attention to the work of Thomas Vinterberg and his film Festen. Dogme #1 where the protagonist, as in "Jagten" is "a victim no one wants to hear". Not just because critics said that the director "deserved the right to make such a movie" Because it was he who was able to show that absolute disregard or mass hysteria erase the boundaries of truth, thereby causing the victim to scream about his innocence. The narration of the story is similar to the stories of Kafka, where a person is carried at breakneck speed through what is happening, but he does not have time to understand what happened, and now he is already on the threshold of the gallows. If Vinterberg wanted to show that Lucas is a rapist, he would have said it in plain text, such is his directorial style. I'm sorry if I'm not speaking correctly. English is not my native language)
People like you are scary. "If you want to get all legal about this, let's get one thing clear: very few key facts are shown about the crimes that might or might have not transpired. That's how it goes in court with cases like these" Yes, and it's fucking despicable. The presumption of innocence is a staple of western democracy. People being convicted of unprovable crimes from decades prior is downright Orwellian. You're an example of why false/exaggerated allegations against men are so poisonous and so dangerous. You de facto believe men are predators even when there's no evidence whatsoever and a mountain of evidence against. And nothing will dissuade you of this fact. This trend permeates society. Misandry is rife.
except for the fact that, that isn’t the subject of the movie. The subject is literally about how quickly mass-hysteria can ruin a man’s life. How one little lie made by a child can completely destroy a man’s life. You’re looking too far into it. This isn’t shutter island
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