A film like Land of Mine reminds us that either morality is relative and we’re all just doing the best we can in this difficult world, or that everyone is a terrible sack of shit and the universe is indifferent to our poorly constructed standards of what’s good and what isn’t. Though, as Americans, we struggle to find nuance in any cultural artifact-let alone in our everyday lives-we’re apt as ever to, regardless of where we plant our flag when it comes to such issues as the morality of punching Nazis, divide the world into black and white, especially when reality fundamentally resists. Martin Zandvliet’s Oscar nominated film does what we pretend Oscar nominated films are supposed to do: When we go low, it goes high.
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