The Hunt Filmmaker Uncut Movie Reaction!

Amazing reaction, really hard film to watch but a film that should be watched once

Chickenelegs

Agreed, Vinterberg is a great director and has been for many, many years. I love all his work and his movies are always very well-received here (I live in The Netherlands). It's sad that so many amazing non-English movies go utterly unnoticed in the U.S.

(sorry for the wall of text, Patreon won't allow me to put in spacing for some reason) This movie broke me, it's in my top-5 of European films but I won't watch it again for another 10 years after this probably (I saw it in cinema twice). It was extremely well-received here in Europe and deservedly won the Oscar for best foreign picture. An important movie, that navigates an extremely difficult and delicate topic expertly and with nuance. But not an easy watch, for sure. Please don't call the little girl a piece of sh*t or hate on her. She's 5, she clearly she had no clue that the word she copied from those teenage boys was sexual, and would cause all this drama. She never even knew what she said, she was just angry at Lucas, in her 5-year-old way. And then it spiralled out of control so rapidly because of the adults around her. Amazing movie, but it never was going to have a truly happy ending, sadly. Yes, Lucas is allowed back into his small community, with all the people he has known all his life. Yes, the people that matter most to him believe his innocence. And him picking up Klara and them being back to normal with him helping her across the tile floor was so heart-warming. But that final gunshot above his head in the last scene says it all. That wasn't an attempt to kill him, it was a very clear warning; "we'll always be watching you. You will never truly be one of us again". Amazing movie, I'm glad you watched it. And I can imagine it struck a personal nerve after your own experiences that you shared. I'm really sorry you had to go through that, the U.S has a long way to go in that regard. After this, I would highly recommend After the Wedding (2006) and Another Round (2020), both excellent Scandinavian movies with Mikkelsen in lead roles. And if you are up for some more foreign language films: The Lives of Others (2006, German, also an Oscar-winner) and Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (2010) are also very good. On an unrelated note: could you maybe consider changing the "start here" screen method you use to sync us up to either having a little movie timer running so we can see exactly where you are at, or a timer + a little mirrored screen of the movie (see Shan Watches Movies' channel for an example)? This seems to work far better for syncing up different copies of the same movie, I find. Because we can hear your movie's sound at the same time as our copy, and it's never fully in sync with your starting method, so you get an echo effect. Maybe you could check out some other methods that help viewers sync up?

This kind of situation happened to my best friend several years back, except the "Klara" for him was his step daughter. It was seriously screwed up and it went on for months til she recanted, and did irreversible to my friend's state of mind. While it was ongoing, he was seriously in a bad mental place. I also wasn't immune from questioning it, even though he was my best friend. You can't help it. Watching this reminded me a lot of that time. It's a seriously fucked up situation from both sides of the equation. There isn't a good way to handle it.

Jesse Stilwell

Funny you saying you'll never watch it again, I've recommended this film and voted for it in almost every one of your polls, and with this only being my second time watching it. From the church until the time jump, I'm bawling. Mads' performance is immaculate! So glad you experienced this film.

Molecule

Been looking forward to seeing this reaction for so long! It is by far one of my top movies of all time. Thomas Vinterberg, the director, never fails to deliver masterful work. I can fully recommend that everyone check out "Another Round" which is by him as well, starring Mads Mikkelsen in the lead. It won an oscar this year, and it was well deserved.

Vraith

pretty depressing but it's a great film

Liam

Indeed, this is rough, but i just had to rewatch this "with" you. This movie is a goddamn masterpiece and Mads Mikkelsen is an absolute legend. Thank you so much for the reaction, James! 🙏 🇩🇰

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