The story in the movie "Hunting" takes place in a small jungle town in Denmark, just like other high-welfare countries, where people do not see the main source of livelihood, and the occasional hunting is like a fun show for an outing vacation. The protagonist of the story, Lucas, divorced from his wife, lives alone in a small town, works in a kindergarten, and is very popular with children. He often drinks with his best friend Theo, a quiet and precocious child, who gradually "falls in love" with L and kisses L on the mouth during a play, L tells her that such intimacy can only happen between her and her parents, K angrily walks away and says in front of the kindergarten principal that he has seen L's little brother, and that it is hard (K only happened to see this part of the male on his brother's PAD). So this quiet town is no longer peaceful for L. With the spread of rumors, the situation can no longer be contained, he was dismissed from kindergarten, kicked out of the house by his best friend T, abandoned by his lover, expelled from the supermarket, and even his beloved puppy was inexplicably strangled to death. Although his son, who had been thinking about it for a while, ran out to meet him without permission, he was taken to the police station at this time, and his son was driven away by a fist while asking the T family for an explanation. In this way, he finally told his mother the truth, but his mother thought that K was just selectively forgetting the unhappy things and did not accept it. On lonely Christmas Eve, L wipes the wounds on his face, changes into a suit, and staggers to church with a limp, where he wants to prove his innocence to his best friend T in this holy place. In the sound of the gospel, he kept looking at T, and for a moment T suddenly felt that he saw something in his eyes, fell into despair, suddenly got up and knocked T down, and finally returned to his cold home alone. That night, K tells the truth to his father T again, and T chooses to believe it, and comes to L's house with a bottle of wine and a few pieces of meat. A year later, L seems to have gained the trust of some people in the town, and his life has become normal, and many of his former friends are present at the ceremony where his son's hunting license is presented. However, during his subsequent hunting, he was suddenly shot coldly and almost died. The movie ends with L's eyes turning from horror to pain. The whole silent film starts with music at this moment, but it is like mourning.

This is a sadistic film. It's as if rumors have been given the definition of truth because they originated in children, and children admit to being violated by L because they are naïve or funny. So an adult was thoroughly played by a group of "villains", and in the case of being unable to prove himself and avenge his grievances, L constantly felt the despair of betrayal and separation. Originally, I always thought that innocence could be understood in this way: only in childhood can I believe that everything is true. However, now I feel that the truth of childhood may not be true.

It is not so much that L is framed by K and other children and feels pain, but that the most direct harm to him comes from the adult world. Little girl K is just imaginative, and she can't even talk about L's "evil deeds", and she doesn't even know how her words will affect L's life. However, the judgment and certainty that L is a pervert are all from adults, and the spitting and fists of L are also from adults, and the distrust and abandonment of L are still from adults. It is understandable that a person's maturity is because he has touched enough taboos, and I don't know if he is influenced by the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes", in the adult world, children will not lie if they question everything while being paranoid about it. Even when K told the truth in front of his mother for the first time, his mother didn't accept it, but she felt that the child was frightened and chose to forget, so that even the little girl K thought that L must have done something bad to her, and subconsciously hid in the face of L. As a result, the source of this misunderstanding has deteriorated, cannot be traced, and there is an infinite vicious circle, so the misunderstanding gradually becomes the truth, and the farce gradually turns into a tragedy. During the movie, I wondered many times whether the film was going to drag into "overtime", that is, ten years later, the little girl grew up and became sensible, and finally testified to L's innocence. However, it seems impossible to think about it. Thinking back to our own childhood, running for no reason, smiling in the mirror, and the accumulation of responsibilities correspond to the disappearance of vitality, and the topic of happiness is only mentioned in our leisure time. The years teach us to forget, to grow, at the cost of loss. Unless little girl K has found out L's innocence from the beginning and has always hidden it in her heart, how could she suddenly find out in her conscience a few years later and want to clear L's wrongs?

The director is very careful to grasp the emotional relaxation, and does not cry wantonly and make a decisive confession, but just tries his best to deduce a simple and quiet realistic plot, which infects the audience like a trickling stream, so that the embankment bursts.

According to what the primary school Chinese teacher taught us, the central idea of any article must be extracted. Think about what this film is trying to convey to us, that we don't trust children completely, that it's extreme and simplistic. Do you want people to be full of trust between people? It's far-fetched and even bloody. I think that to perceive the charm of the film, it is necessary to return to the details of the film. Little girl K's unintentional words actually caused such a big fluctuation, no one was wrong during this period, as if only the little girl was wrong; and when the little girl told the truth, the adults didn't believe it, at this time the little girl was not wrong, were the adults wrong? L finally picked up K again, as if nothing had happened, and he never resented the little girl in his heart? The little girl K still trusted L's support in the end, but I don't know how L's life changed because of her, do you think it's ridiculous, or do you think it's lamentable? With so many children describing the basement of L's house, but L's house doesn't have a basement, do you think it's hateful or terrible?

Yes, this film just gives us some food for thought, and if you think about it, whether you have an answer or not, it's a gain.

Just like at the end of the film, the person who fired the cold gun and missed the shot did not shoot the L with a second shot, but chose to leave. What kind of choice is left for L. I think the answer can be found in his frightened eyes, which turned to pain, and his pain turned to confusion: because of the unknown, he drifted away, and because he was lonely, he went forward.