2012 ‘Jagten’ Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Mads Mikkelsen Alexandra Rapaport Thomas Bo Larsen Anne Louise Hassing Lars Ranthe Susse Wold Ole Dupont Annika Wedderkopp Lasse Fogelstrøm Bjarne Henriksen Sebastian Bull Sarning Steen Ordell Guldbrandsen Daniel Engstrup Troels Thorsen Søren Rønholt Jytte Kvinesdal Josefine Gråbøl Nicolai Dahl Hamilton Øyvind Hagen-Traberg Allan Wibor Christensen Rikke Bergmann Rasmus Lind Rubin Frank Rubæk Nina Christrup Birgit Petersen Karina Fogh Holmkjær Heidi Gross Marie Aktor Mona C. Soliman Show All…
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A brilliant move on the part of Director Thomas Vinterberg to go in the direction that he did with this film! Rather than keep us in the dark as to whether or not a crime had been committed he laid all of his cards on the table leaving no doubt whatsoever as to the innocence of this man!
By doing so we saw, felt, and anguished over the many injustices that wrongfully took place against this teacher, friend and neighbor from a small town where everyone knows everyone by name!
It in essence allowed us to walk in Lucas's shoes! And it was a truly devastating and emotionally draining experience! His journey became our journey and I can only hope…
I grew up reading about the actual case from a small community in the middle of Norway.
Lindholm and Vinterberg's story is of course altered for dramatic effect, as well as shortened the amount of time it took to resolve.
I was only in my teens, without any sort of knowledge about the particular community/invidivuals or the basis of proof, but I remember it never sitting quite right with me. As the Danish title refers to, it absolutely felt like a witch hunt, with some, in hindsight, awful handling by the professionals on the case.
As it were, the origin story changed a national belief in children as 100% purveyors of truth.
From this, Lindholm writes, unfortunately not completely free…
"Look into my eyes. Look me in the eyes. What do you see? Do you see anything? Nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. You leave me alone now."
Danish director, Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration), delivers a powerful and emotionally draining drama that will leave audiences hooked and feeling enraged for what Mads Mikelssen's character goes through in his closely-knit community. It's a film that will resonate with you and stay on your mind long after it's over. Building on Mikelssen's powerful and engaging performance this is a thrilling psycho-social drama that studies the mob mentality very closely while showing us how a lie that's been accepted takes on a life of its own destroying innocent lives in the process. That is…
A brilliantly painted portrait of how prejudice can turn even the most decent people into a mindless mob, The Hunt is a provocative study of our ever judgmental society which is always ready to believe anything that gives them a chance to persecute someone without even verifying the accusation or caring about how affecting & damaging it could actually be if the accused turns out to be innocent.
Set around Christmas in a small Danish town, The Hunt (also known as Jagten) tells the story of Lucas; a kindergarten schoolteacher in his mid-40s who is admired by his peers, loved by his school children & is friendly with everyone in town. But his life soon turns upside down when an innocent lie…
mads mikkelsen gives such a heartbreaking performance to a heartbreaking story. this movie literally broke me.
Mads and his deer... Like Hannibal wasn't enough.
Overall, great message and everything but the film was too long. Although only one thing was explained throughout the film, many aspects of witch hunts were displayed, and they felt so real that you couldn't not feel for Lucas (Mads).
The story, again, felt real and like something that could actually happen. When watching horror movies I always wanted to say to the adult characters "Listen to the children!". Turns out, that's not always the best idea, haha...
With so many drama films out there, The Hunt (Jagten) manages to stand out of the crowd with intense tragedy, compelling and sympathetic performance from Mads Mikkelsen along with an eye pleasing cinematography.
I've never been so physically reactive to a film before (and that doesn't just mean crying. I'd whisper "fuuuuuuuuck" to myself, at one point i started flailing my arms in anger like a lunatic. No film has ever emotionally effected me as much as this did. Fuck you Jagten.
The movie is playing with the audience's patient and moral value. As an audience we know what really happened, but we cannot help our main character, Lucas.
Humans are quick to judge without looking at the issues in a deeper manner. Humans often protected this judgement even though they know that what they assumed to be true is actually false. Humans only want to hear what they really want to hear....and this behavior happens in our society on a daily basis...a sad reality isn't it?
That was really powerful I honestly don’t know what to say. It for sure messed up with my brain and now I don’t know what to do with my life after seeing all this. I just know that it shifted my view on this very serious subject issue. Wow.
i cried like five different times and i wanted to punch inanimated objects many other times but when it was time for the church scene i almost drowned in my own tears
i can never understand a thing mads mikkelsen says cause he mumbles 80% of the time but this still slays
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