I love Denmark movies and watched plenty of them.And I found many of their contents have something to do with Children/teenage sex,for example FOR A LOST SOLDIER..I wonder is Danish culture very comprehensive about that?
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This is a Swedish film. Sweden and Denmark are two different countries although their cultures aren't that different. The danes are in general more open-minded than the swedes.
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Not really no, we hunt down those non-persons like anywhere else on the earth, denmark does take care of our children, but of course those barbaric attacks on children still happens :(.
I think we have a good system of helping people who has been subject to attacks, or at least i hope so.
In regards to the topic yes we are pretty openminded about sexuality but we still draw a line when our borders are crossed. Just because we were the first country in the world to make porno legal doesn't mean we all go around naked and have sex every night (i wish...) :).
The swedes does tend to go a little deeper into those subject that are taboo in other places, like this movie with the teenage - teacher taboo.
Better to die laughing, than to perish in boredom.
For the record, the two nude 14 year olds in this film are actually 21 and 16, not really pedophile material.
I can't believe how Johan Widerberg can look so young in this film, I saw him play a young adult in a TV show from three years BEFORE this film, and there he looked older than the character he was playing.
Interesting point of view that Danes generally are more openminded than Swedes. What makes you say that? Just curious. One could also say the opposite. For example considering how restrictive Denmark is in receiving refugees, compared to Sweden.
shareThat just means that Danes aren't (generally) as naive, hypocrite and obsessed about trying to look good in other peoples' eyes, as the Swedes are.
By the way, if you're so open-minded towards refugees, how about actually making a difference by taking in a refugee family to sleep on your spare bed or couch? No? Didn't think so either. And the pro-refugee hypocrisy is just the tip of the ice berg of political correct nonsense that is wrong with Sweden today.
/// Best regards from a fellow citizen of Sweden, the country on the verge of successfully managing to politically correct itself to self-destruction.
Interesting point of view that Danes generally are more openminded than Swedes. What makes you say that? Just curious. One could also say the opposite. For example considering how restrictive Denmark is in receiving refugees, compared to Sweden.
shareAs someone above pointed out: it's a SWEDISH film.
I believe that film makers from north european countries enjoy a greater liberty on this issue.
Another mistake: For a Lost Soldier is a Dutch movie.
And most European countries used to make movies about real teenagers for decades. If you have ever known teenagers and have ever been one, you know that - despite what some people and some nations try to make us believe - sexuality is an important thing in teenagers' life. And if you are honest, you'll admit that it is very often the thing number one in their minds. So if you want to show the teenager as he/she really is, you can't avoid sexuality. However, during last decade European authors also started avoiding this aspect of teenager life, obviously afraid what would Big overseas brother think of them.
Haha, typical Americans. :)
Emil
I couldn't help feeling slightly disturbed about how European authors are supposedly avoiding the real issues concerned with sexuality just because, as someone above pointed out, "what overseas big brothers might think of them'. Europe has always served as a beacon of cultural mores and values with nary a care of 'the big brother'. Indeed Europeans pride themselves being, well.... Europeans. And that's an identiy that I've, in my limited experience (I'm an Indian btw) with Europeans have found Europeans declaring rather proudly. What, in your opinion has happened to change this?
shareAs with film makers everywhere, the box office will determine the contents of the films produced. If Europeans want to watch teenage sex, and it is profitable, then teen sex it is. It does seem strange to me that the countries that claim to be the most open minded and liberal about sex, are the one's that rely on sex content in films to attract an audience.