There is a new version coming out with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhall. I like both actors but I have an uneasy feeling that this one could be upsetting.
There is a new version coming out with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhall. I like both actors but I have an uneasy feeling that this one could be upsetting.
Becca said
February 9 2010 @ 10:18 pm
Here’s a summary of the movie, I hope this is what you’re looking for:
Bier’s film is a drama about a UN-soldier (Ulrich Thomsen) who is sent away to the war in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a P.O.W., but is reported dead to the family. His wife (Connie Nielsen) and younger brother (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) both deeply mourn him, and that brings them closer together. They kiss once, but pass it off as the grief and don’t pursue the relationship. Meanwhile, both the soldier and the young technician are locked up in a warehouse, kept without food or water. After the soldier shows them how to arm and disarm a weapon, his captors decide the technician is no longer useful and have the soldier bludgeon him to death with a lead pipe in order to save his own life. Eventually he is found and brought back to Denmark. The guilt of what he did forces him to lie and provide false hope that the technician may still be alive. He becomes unstable, spiraling down into a pit of guilt and rage, and begins to threaten and abuse his wife and tear his house apart. It finally becomes necessary for the police to intervene. While in prison, his wife visits and pressures him until he finally tells her the truth.