Lille soldat (2008)
8/10
Fischer: "Ready to change the world?"
10 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Is it possible to do something good for the other? Save the world: the leading question Fischer asks the disillusioned Lotte. Returned from war. Is it really for the other/s or actually for herself? Does she feel better as soldier in Afghanistan? She tells Lucy that she "made a mistake." Lotte sees that her father runs an escort service. His favorite is his stand-in-daughter. The Nigerian Lily. Lotte has to work and her father needs a driver. Until he found a male driver she helps him. She has to drive Lily to her daytime-escort-visits. L&L discover similarities in what they did, do and are. Lottes father has diabetes and forgets sometimes to take is medicine. In case something serious happens with him she gets the code for the safe, 23-24-48, where the girls passport and money is. A relation develops between the escort Lilly and the driver Lotte. Can you do something good for a person. Even if the receiver rejects the offer? Lotte has her second chance to do something good. As she has access to the safe she takes Lilys passport and money. She calls Lily to meet her at the hotel and tells her to change clothes, pack and go home:"You are free now. Get dressed. I call otherwise the police. Tell them what you do here. They send you back without money. I do it." Lotte knows of Lilys son and mother supporting them. Lotte gives her the money, enough to buy her free from the Nigerian madam and enough for her mother and son. Lily: "Don't do this. Fix your own life." She tells that her father is good to her. Both have seen how he treats the other girls. Even the 'kind' Henning, their best costumer, is not kind. Lotte beats him, taking the unconscious to her apartment. But instead to be happy is Lucy angry.Waking up in Lottes bed: "It is my money for my daughter you have taken. How dare you." Lotte sees her to the airport. The small business plane heads for London from where she can reach Nigeria. The furious father tells his daughter that Lily stays in London or Rome, whatever and starts with the money her own business. If Lotte has thought of this or not? She did it for Lily. And Lily has her passport and money. Her freedom. As free person her own choice: either stay or return home. Or fetch from Nigeria her mother and son. The movie ends that her father must punish her. His daughter. Fathers have this right. He tells his helpers to do it. But the daughter wants her father do it. First he listens not to her demand. But she repeats the demand again and again until he does it. Bleeding she leaves him. It is possible to do something good for another. If you are ready to go all the way. What happens in this movie A side effect. Mainly it is for your own good that you feel better. As Lily asked her during the three hours brake:"So why soldier?" is answered with: "To do something good." "Do soldiers good things?" asks Lily and gets the answer: "Yes, sometimes." And Lily asks: "You killed many people?" is answered with: "What about your daughter?"
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