The director talks about how a walk down the street in Copenhagen with his brother and sister led to uncovering this hidden history of its postwar era, what's important when working with explosions and why he'll never work with sand again.
http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2015/09/martin-zandvliet-land-of-mine.html
"I think it’s important that we open our borders. [The film title] says “Land of Mine” – this is my country, and this is what I think is happening in the whole world. We’re so afraid of letting go of our values, but what are our values? Is it houses? Is it money? Is it jobs? If you’re unemployed, is it that somebody could come in and they’ll take your job? It’s all fear of wealth – basically capitalism. We should be open. The world is one place, and we all own it."
Very predictably PC.
Perhaps some jihadis with machine guns could change his mind? Although probably not. Film directors tend to live in their own reality.
Well larsped i havent seen this movie yet so unless Theres a plot in the movie that actually hints at your suggestions i think you are overinterpreting the English title as the English one hasnt got the slightest resemblance to the Danish one which Means under the sand/under sandet. Besides of that the English title might even have been decided by the English distributor for marketing purposes and not by the Danish director.
shareI am quoting the director...
shareOk my bad then i just thought you were overinterprereting the english title, sorry.
shareOk. Here the director complains that Danes don't want to share their welfare state with immigrants from the 3rd world - unlike himself, as he is generous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huchXfOQ4z4
Basically this is par for the course for Danish directors, they receive money from the state to produce movies that set Danes in a bad light. To keep the money flowing they need to bash Danes at every opportunity. Lars von Trier compared the Danish flag to a swastika and so on.
Very crude stuff, but the money is controlled by people with a cultural marxist ideology, so it is sometimes hard to determine what the artists really think, and what they are just saying in order to satisfy their paymasters.
Well thats a pretty shamefull generalization of an entire people and as a dane i think its bs but as all democratic countries there is left and right wing parties that reflects its Citizens and infact there has been a rise on the right in the most of europe. When that is said i dont think its inhumane that there is a scepsis among some parts of the population in regard of the vast ammount of refugees seeking up here because of our welfare system. The reason why i say seeking up here is that its clear that they does that because Scandinavian countries has the best welfare systems and according to eu refugees shall seek asylum in the first country they arrive at inside of the borders of eu. Our welfare system is allready under pressure and there is cutdowns in healthcare, schools and elder care and besides of that there is statistics that proof that only a third is in a job several years later and therefore becomes an economical burden for the country. In regard of directors recieving Money to set danes in a bad light is ridiculous and what a few direcors say or make represents their personal views not the state. Do you seriously believe that denmark is somekind of communist country where the state directs what the people are allowed to say or do in movies because what you are saying does paint such a Picture and i can only say you are wrong. Finally what was said in the interview there was some paralels between the ww2 where danes helped jews flee to sweeden and the present day danes helping syrian refugees to sweden as well. The interview was also from the time where vast flow of refugees was at its highest and to be quite frank the entire europe was to some extent sinking into paralysis because europe hadnt seen such vast refugee flows since ww2.
shareThe communists are not in government, but after 1968 (as in many Western countries) they took power in other institutions like the media, education system and cultural institutions. The goal was to influence the people in such a way as to prepare for communism, either through revolution or a foreign takeover (by the Soviets).
One group called the cultural marxists believed that by undermining the culture and values and basically creating self-hate in the population would open their minds to a communist society.
Artists became dependent on state funds in the 60s, but the government did not want to give out the funds directly. Instead the distribution of these funds fell into the hands of the marxists, appealing to their ideology and taste is one of the reasons why these viewpoints are so prevalent in Danish music, theater and film.
why he'll never work with sand again.