Michael Radny This film seemed relatively hidden when trying to find it and there is a perfectly good explanation for that. In a way this film feels controversial and rather explicit, but that is what makes this film all the more merrier. However, the tediousness of the first forty-five minutes did get on my nerves a bit, but after that, the story really comes into a full effect play. It's quite a hidden gem this film, though, at the same time it could be considered a tad bit child exploitative.For A Lost Soldier deals with some strong themes and brings some new light to certain topics. However, much more could have been done for the film to really burst onto the big screen.

aled-6 I don't know if a boy of 12 can be attracted sexually to an adult male as was depicted in this movie. For me it raises the question of at what age does a person who is going to grow up gay become interested in someone of the same sex. It is obvious that the young soldier takes advantage of the innocence of a youngster although it is suggested too that the feelings of the soldier are more than merely sexual. The dance scene implies that there was love. The end of the movie and the title implies that the boy remembers the soldier in later years and as a mature adult with affection and perhaps longing so one is tempted to conclude that relationship with the young soldier though brief was meaningful. I was reminded of the relationship of the boy and the old man in Cinema Paradiso which although certainly not of a sexual nature was also very important to both the boy and the man. For a Lost Soldier gave me much to think about and is likely to provoke much thought in the intelligent viewer.

ninoguapo I have to admit that I haven't read the book and after reading comments about it – I am not sure that I will read it at all. The movie however is superb. I have watched it several times by now – with friends of mine and alone. The main character is a young Dutch boy - Jeroen, played by Maarten Smit . He falls in love with Canadian soldier during the time he spends away from Amsterdam in a small village. He is send there by his mother, in order to avoid the starvation in the big Dutch cities during the world war when the food there was never enough.While watching this movie – you will have to decide for yourself if the relationship presented in the movie is acceptable to you or not. The theme song stuck in my mind – as well as and one of my favorite scenes in which Jeroen and Walt run in the field in a very unique way. To me this movie is mainly about friendship, then love – the relationship with Walt made the boy happy, just look the way he smiles when they have their picture taken in one of the scenes. At the same time the ending leaves some questions unanswered- both to the boys and to me as a viewer – was the Canadian soldier just taking an advantage of the boy? And if that is the case I will be disgusted from him. But what if he really loved – but then why he left him? As the movie focuses on the memories of Jeroen , we see that even as an adult he hasn't forget his hero- so there was love and one can only hope this feeling was shared by both main characters.

bill-894 A friend urged me to watch this movie and I did so with absolutely no idea of what it was about.Everything others have said about it is true but still I feel very uneasy about the subject matter and the "acceptable" way in which it is portrayed.This little boy is just that, a little boy and whether you're straight or gay, relationships between adults and children are taboo. The validity of that taboo can be argued but it exists not to protect the adult but to protect the child.An interesting movie but the subject matter prevents it from being great.