“The Hunt”: A Look Into the Evil of Ignorance

Like his 1998 feature The Celebration (Festen), which kicked off the Dogme 95 movement, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt is a social horror movie. The ‘hunt’ in question is the systematic ostracization of a kindergarten teacher, Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), by the inhabitants of his small town after he’s accused of sexually abusing a little […]