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The worst part for me is when the little girl tries to tell her mother half way through the film that he didn't do anything but they just think she's in denial.

The ending is simply brilliant. It doesnt matter if he was found not guilty, he will forever be "hunted"

An absolute masterpiece imo. Showing how words can ruin a persons life

Mads’ performance in this movie is absolutely incredible! As a Dane it’s amazing to see actors from my country getting recognized, and in his case it’s 100% deserved. This movie is fantastic!

The church scene gives me chills every time. Absolutely phenomenal acting from Mads.

Honestly i think you'd love the Hannibal TV show. It also stars Mads Mikkelsen. So freaking good.

Vinterberg and Mikkelsen, a duo for the ages. Fantastic film, that I also could only watch once. Mads won Best Actor at Cannes in 2012 for his performance.

10:20 You see how his loving and playful attitude with the children has evaporated and he is now withdrawn. A great parallel to the start of the film.

Never been more angry watching a movie. Great performance by Mads.

“Not the place for social commentary.” Yo, film, literature, music...art is THE place for social commentary. But I get it, you didn’t want to get too far from watching the movie itself, and I think I know to what you were referring. But don’t hold too much back during these commentaries. Those things you were feeling and the things you were being compelled to say are the purpose of the work. If art didn’t do this to us, what value would it have outside of being a pretty little thing that distracts us for a few empty moments?

Wow, this was a pleasant surprise as a Dane myself. One of the most frustrating and heartbreaking films you'll see. Incredibly sympathetic performance from Mads Mikkelsen

I'm a huge Mads Mikkelsen fan and this is one of my favorite performances of all time. Just last year he worked with the same director (Thomas Vinterberg) again for "Another Round". It won the academy award for best international feature film. Highly recommend this one too!

I will never forget my mom telling me in the 90s about a man’s life being ruined by his kids falsely accusing him of molesting them. I believe they later admitted to this but it will never fix what they did and give him back what he once had. This movie was especially impactful for me, knowing this does really happen!

i cried at the scene when the kids are singing and he just starts bawling

The person who fired at him at the end was definitely the little girl's brother.

Love this movie, such a simple yet terrifying concept that a lie can ruin your life so much.

The store scene is next level fucked up. Too realistic

Denis Villeneuve’s 2010 masterpiece "Incendies" would make for an amazing reaction. Doesnt see it get talked about enough

33:14 YES. Thank you for this, I highly respect the fact that you’re addressing a really complex and underestimated problem head on. THANK YOU

I gotta say, as a series if you havent seen it, Hannibal! He to me is definitely the definitive Lecter as well as the master of micro expressions. Hannibal is absolutely genius, as well.

Dude, thank you for sharing your thoughts and perspective on this film. It is a really hard movie to watch, but it’s so well made. I appreciate you putting yourself through that for us.

The little girl was a brilliant actress. Just superb. However, unlike you my anger wasn't focussed on her, it was more directed towards those adults who coerced her, confused her and who egged her on. In the early scene with her mother, Klara actually recanted her lie but her mother wouldn't allow her to! Lucas' son was also a great little actor too. Fantastic film.

Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration) is a great companion piece to this movie, as well as being the first Dogme 95 movie

Mads is phenomenal in all his movies, but this certainly is a turn from his more Hollywood villain centric roles. His performance in Hannibal is also magnetic. Looking forward to this reaction!

Mads Mikkelsen is one of the most versatile and talented actors out there. Guy maintain a good and humble posture, although he's a genius.

I live in Denmark and we had to watch this for school, and it's a beautiful shot, directed and acted movie but Gods! it's torture to watch it! xD

I really... REALLY recommend a film called Atonement. It is an incredible movie. Joe Wright's best, imo. You're gonna absolutely love his filmmaking. It's also about a lie that spins out of control, but nowhere near as bad as this lmao. I think it's definitely worth a watch.

Breaks my heart that he missed the little girl telling them he did nothing wrong in the first half of the film. She isn’t a villain in anyway she tried to tell them but the listened to the lie over the truth. Obviously James saw it while editing thankfully. I feel like that detail is really important to the films message about how we choose not to believe people when we are afraid. Outstanding reaction regardless. This maybe the best video on the channel so far.

It always bothers me how people are quick to judge others despite the strength of their arguments. I appreciated your thoughts on this matter.

Thank you again for what you shared man you’re a man fr through and through 👌🏼 we gotta remind ourselves sometimes that empathy is everything and you don’t know how your actions will shape someone else’s life

Thank you for reacting to this... And yea, we don't do a whole lot of happy ending here in Denmark C:

My mom is an educated pedagogue, and has worked at several Kindergartens over the years. She once told me a story about this new guy that came to work there. Young lad, straight out of campus and with a glint in the eye. Charming, caring, and just an over all good guy. All the other pedagogues spoke highly of him, my mom included. Few months later; some parent to one of the girls shows up, and tells the boss that her little girl said she was fondled by this guy. That is all it took. The very same day, whilst they were having a coffee pause, every single one of his colleagues suddenly changed in an instant. Some of them, who had praised him literally the day before, suddenly started talking about "how they always felt there was something strange about him" and shit. Long story short; they do a thorough investigation with various child psychologists for the little girl and police shows up to question the young man over several days etc, and the girl even changed her story herself several times. So the case is dropped. Guess what happened to the young guy in question? Quit his job obviously, and went down with the flag in a heavy depression. Even after his name was cleared, they still sat around talking shit about him. My mom quit a few days later, since she just couldn't stand it. She told me she imagined this happening to one of her own sons, just being blatantly accused like that without evidence and even in the face of having your name cleared through a thorough investigation, people just refused to believe otherwise. That stigma is gonna be with you for the rest of your life. Even if cleared by court, it's still gonna say in your papers that you were under investigation for that sort of thing.

I remember watching this movie on the plane and how it made me feel so conflicted and what a great movie and also who are the psychos who wanted you to watch this during the holiday lmao

One of my favorites movies ever. So Good

I waited soooooo long for this reaction to finally happen. Thanks man!!!

Bro, you are always reacting to straight BANGERS that most don’t. That’s why I love this channel.

This film doesn’t get talked about enough. It erupted certain emotions in me that kinda mixed together into this feeling I haven’t really experienced before. It’s such a brutal concept in itself it’s almost impossible to not get heated just thinking about it. Another great reaction though, keep up the good work man.

As for difficult movies, try "The Road". Post apocalyptic and bleak, but very good.

Ahhh, a Danish movie

I'm so glad you watched this, it's one of my favourite films ever and so underrated. Mads Mikkelson's best performance, the acting by all, the direction, the dialogue and cinematography are fantastic.

It's fantastic that you watch movies in other languages than English. Keep it up. There are real gems out there begging to be reacted to. Great vid James.

As a guy who works with children (well, unemployed at the moment, but will work at a preschool again), watching this movie is so effing tough. Going through what Mads character went through is something I don't even want to think about. What a horrible nightmare. Working with children is amazing and I'm so happy that I found my way into this profession (took me way to long, but better late than never). Playing with them, teaching them things and just interacting with them will never get boring. Sure, there are times when they are a handful. Doing/saying things that they shouldn't, not doing what you ask them to and so on. But even then, I like it. I might curse under my breath, but it's all part of the job. Every time I have to deal with something less great a child does, it's another step forward for the growth of the child. They might get in a fight over and over again and I'll be there telling them that it's not okay and tries to talk to him/her about it every time. One time, ten times, hundred times, a thousand times. They might still get into their 1001st fight after that. But I keep planting those little seeds and one day they will grow and bear fruit and the child will stop getting into silly fights. I might not get to witness it, but that's okay. Kids are amazing. Slightly less so that one time when a five year old, after I've worked with him for a few months, had to ask me if I was a man or a woman. The reason for him asking was, in his words, because "well...you do have a beard (I do have a long beard) and men have them.......but you also have boobs".... Sure, I am a bit rotund, but ffs kid!

This is one of my favorite movies of all time, not because it's an easy one to watch, but because it is just SOOOO good at pulling out the emotions. Loved watching your reaction. It made my day.

Wow. Great film dude. You always pick some underrated Gems. Props to ya

Something I've noticed is that in American movies Mads is often playing some badass character like a villain, but in Danish movies he's almost always the everyman character. The one you can relate to.

didn't expect this in my recommended, this is crazy to me as im from denmark myself, very good movie. this and darkland is one of the very best i would guess from my country. we love you over here james keep up the amazing work!!

"Adams æbler" is another great danish Mads Mikkelsen movie, as well as "Another round". Both are in my option definately a great watch.

I watched this film 2 years back due to it being one of hideo Kojima's favorite films. It changed my perspective on life and really spoke to our current life with false allegations. Not a victim blamer and I believe you should take every allegation seriously but know how dangerous the public opinion is so do your due diligence and remember everyone is innocent until proven guilty Edit: just finished your vid and feel dumb that you already mentioned this sentiment

I am utterly convinced that the one shooting at him in the end is Klara's brother. He looks at Lucas a bit weirdly at the "Rite of Passage" scene and it's also really poetic since he showed Klara the iPad with the "hooker rod" which she later mentions in the movie. Yeah, you had the same idea.

Fantastic choice James. There is another movie with Mads and the director of this movie Thomas Vinterberg called “Another Round”. It’s equally brilliant.

This made me feel just like what I felt when I saw 'The Atonement' and when I read To kill a mockingbird. Just sums up what the society is within approximately two hours.

If you big fan of Mads, man.. you should really watch Hannibal. He portrays Hannibal phenomenally ( also low-key TopChef)

30:15 That's not the first time she confessed. You sort of talked over it, but at 17:59 she already said he didn't do anything, but her mom pretty much tells her Yes he did, you just don't remember. The very understandable fears of the parents are so strong that they almost goad Klara into believing the lie and stop listening to what she's actually saying. This isn't on Klara alone, I feel, but then again, what else can you do as a parent but protect your child? The people that should have really come forward are the kids that showed Klara that video. They must know that that might have played a part, and they could have been instrumental in figuring out what really happened

I’m with you on high praise for this film, from the direction, to acting, and script, it’s a film I’ll only ever watch once but it is one damn powerful film.

Also great video I'm half way through and absolutely love how you react the exact same way I was reacting watching the movie lol

One of the great things about a lot of danish movies, are that they don't shy away from difficult topics and they really makes you think about them. Another great director is Per Fly, who did "The bench".

My theory is the same person who killed their dog is the same person who shot at him. Which I think is Klara's brother

Do watch Mad's The Green Butchers (my fav performance of his), Flickering Light and Another Round.

I'm right there with you, James. I've only watched this movie once, and it's still to this day the most infuriating subject I've watched in a movie. I'm only putting myself through the anger and pain because I value your opinion on movies and tv shows.

the fact that you mixed up the movies is the funniest thing ever 😭😭 but i’m so glad you watched both. the comedy version is hilarious

Wow, this one was rough. Your commentary is brilliant as usual. Cheers

This was definitely one of the most infuriating movies I've ever watched. But one of my all time favorites.

No. You chose the right film. This movie is brilliant, and one of the few that almost made me want to walk away it was so disturbing. A true horror film, so terrifying. Because this, or something like this, can happen to any of us. Thing is. I can see everyone's perspective in this. Such a great, but difficult, film.

Saw this movie years ago and loved it. I'm so happy you checked it out.

It reminds me a bit of daycare child abuse hysteria that was part of the Satanic Panic starting in the 1980s.

I feel like its really hard for men once they've been falsely accused of harassment or as such; even innocent they're doomed otherwise. I've heard of men's entire lives being destroyed in an instant.

This will always be what I associate Mads with, he's outstanding. It puts you in a place you do not want to be at all and honestly I doubt I could watch it more than once, but it left such a deep impression. Not many pieces of media have fucked me up the way this did.

Very good reaction! I felt the same exact way when watching the film.

Watched it again, it's so heavy, it's sooo heavy my soul hurts.

Such a tense but very, very good movie! The church scene broke me down in tears.. So emotional and just sad

I remember at my old High School 2 girls were doing very poorly in their classes, and they hated their teacher. So they ended up telling their parents and the police that he sexually assaulted them. The man was gay, with his fiancé at the time, and he was fired from the school regardless of the fact there was no evidence and the girls even admitted to making it up and all they got was expelled, they just went to the neighbouring high school and moved on as if nothing had happened. Shit makes me so mad when people don't even think or try to understand anymore, it's just listen to whatever someone says as fact and its disgusting.

I'm going to be honest here. My dad tried pulling the same shit. When I was in kindergarten, I had a friend named Joey. We would do stupid shit and try to hit each other in the nuts because we knew it hurt. One day, my dad was wrestling with my sister (he would do it to me too, we would both enjoy trying to out-best our dad). When he got too rough, I ran up and punched him in the nuts. He started asking me where I learned that from, and being a child I told him i learned it from Joey. At the time, I had a step dad named Joe. The same night I did that, I was being interrogated by 2 police officers asking me what Joe did to me. After a while, the cops went away without question. But in the following year, I wasn't allowed to see my mom. That broke me as a child. From then on, I learned that certain words can carry a lot of weight with it. That's why this movie broke me.

yoooooo i remembered this movie existed, and was like wonder if anyone made a reaction to it... and then i see james vs fucking cinema! amazing reaction as always

There's a line in the movie that's something like "kids don't lie", and it's just like... have y'all ever met a kid?

I did not expect this reaction. I haven't seen this film since it came out, mainly because I didn't think I could sit thought it again but watching your reaction reminded my of how many scene of this film are still in my head great film. I hope you watch some more Thomas Vinterberg films I just saw Another Round a few days again and am recommending it everyone its brilliant

The little girl sitting in the literal shadows in the office at 6:28 is foreshadowing that she is the villain technically.

Great reaction! watching this movie is a horrible experience. i saw it 8 years ago. its still with me somehow. and it probably always will. But i cant deny that it is a masterpiece, and the acting by Mads and thee other actors. wow.. this movie should be mandatory to watch, something we all have to see. that's the legacy of this movie.

Hello, Danish guy here. I'd just like to say that I appreciate your video, and it is very well done with showing exactly enough of the movie scenes for them to NOT be spoilers, in case someone else wanna watch it :) 6:32 It's a bit complicated. Her mom and dad has marriage issues which is taking it's tole on her. Her father and the main charractor are best friends, and she only has good memories/experiences with him, and she don't quite understand how relationships and what not work, she kiss him, most likely just to show she really likes him (but not sexually ofc, it's just a child, but she doesn't know better). 7:16 I can't say that I disagree with you. But I'd still defend her a bit by pointing out that in her age, she doesn't know how life ruiening what she has done is. Besides, a lot of the bad stuff she does/says is from what she knows/has seen from her father and brother. So honestly, everything bad that happens to the main character is because of her cuck dad and shitty brother. 22:50 A shame you didn't comment on this part. For the people who haven't watched the movie (and don't mind the spoiler): In that scene we find out that apparently now multiple children at the kindergarden have come forward and said that they have been touched. But, the "funny" part is that they claim to have been touched in the main charracters basement at his house. And since they all have the same story it makes it seem pretty valid, since lies typically change between people. But then we hear that they police checked his house only to find that there is no basement.. So basically, it's very likely that the assholes at the kindergarden have started to fill the childrens heads with the idea that they might've also been touched. 31:19 I cringed so hard at your reaction. Since well, well you know after watching the ending. So sad. It has the best outcome that can happen, but still, it really shows that there will always be the "but what if it was true though" mentality for people. 32:21 Yeah, I agree that it was likely the brother. But honestly, it could've been a lot of people. I don't have a perfect memory of the movie, but as far as I remember, there were several people who still didn't seem "happy" about him, but yes the brother seems to be the most likely suspect.

This film really hit me in the feels. Anyone who has been falsely accused of crimes despite being innocent and a good hearted person knows how realistic this can be. Even if you’re not found guilty by law the court of public opinion never changes back to how it was before. It’s a really sickening part of society and the harmfulness of herd mentality,. This is why people need to stop being sheep and think for themselves. Mads gave an absolutely amazing and heart breaking performance here.

Just a reflection on Lucas's deep relationship with Theo ... I mean to doubt and accuse someone you always knew . You always loved and had as a close friend in this way is heart shattering!

Great reaction. Love the movie, and how important it is. I think you are too hard on the child though. She does not know consequences, she has no idea what it means, what she is saying. She clearly comes from a home, where she doesn't get the love she needs as a small child. She has experienced how good Lucas is, and that he is kind to her. She feels betrayed, that he doesn't accept her gift, and because of unfortunate events, she makes up a story about Lucas, that she doesn't know the severity of, simply because she is hurt, and hasn't received the attention at home, that she needs. I simply can't blame her for anything, which is why the movie, for me, is even more brilliant.

First of I want to say that your commentary is very good regarding the thing about thinking for yourself and the frustration you, as a person of colour feels. Secondly your commentary regarding the movie as a whole is as good as usual. This film is a VERY difficult watch but it's brilliant. It does exactly what it has to do and it does it really well.

You'd LOVE Hannibal!!! Mads is phenomenal. Always ❤

the supermarket scene when he stands up for himself, that just broke me man!

For me. The point where it all went wrong is with the psychiatrist. He asked the kid leading questions, and pretty much guided her towards the answer he already knew. If he had been more impartial or if the brother hadnt showed her that picture it could have been avoided.

I wish the girl would have apologized, and hopefully she did later on but, I'm so thankful for the fact that she came forward and admitted to lying. That took a lot of guts for a 4 year old. I imagine a lot of children wouldn't come forward because of being afraid of getting in trouble.

Great content bro. Agree 100%

This and Another Round are my fave foreign films! Thomas Vinterberg is an excellent director!

One of my favorite movies, thanks for reacting. Maybe Druk is obvious to be next.

You should also check out Mads Mikkelsen's new film Riders of Justice. It's an incredible dark comedy with a very emotional character story. And of cause Another Round also. Amazing film.

the thing I like about Thomas vinterberg films is there depressing all the way through but have slightly happy endings

I recommend the dark Danish comedies "Riders of Justice", "Flickering Lights", "Adam's Apples" and "The Green Butchers". They all have Mads Mikkelsen in them, and are hilarious if you are into that kind of humor.

This is a welcome surprise for a danish viewer like me!

I watched this with my friends on discord and we all almost didn’t speak through the whole film because we felt so frustrated and angry.

One of my favorites dude! Yes!

Also, Mads Mikkelson was amazing in Hannibal.

Saw mikkelsen in Pusher 2 first time, i just love this film so much.

I think this is a very important movie for the current generation and the society we live in. It has brilliantly addressed the issue of false accusation in the most impactful way. Due process is very important guys, one should never accuse someone without any evidence or data.

after a movie like this, i would suggest another danish movie(if you can find it with subs) from the other end of the scale and that is : Charlot og Charlotte, a movie in 4 parts that will lift ur spirit and smile of this crazy world : ) really like ur reations, so much better than most.