Maybe the filmmakers were attempting to indict the Danish people as a whole, especially the males, as passive and unable to form a coherent thought.
First the Danish family drive eight hours with their pre-adolescent daughter to spend the weekend with a Dutch couple and son they briefly met at a resort who were particularly charismatic. Ridiculous.
They go and almost immediately begin to get bad vibes. Then they leave their child with the Dutch folks' babysitter of whom they had zero knowledge. Unlikely.
Of course they completely trust the Dutch. There are many opportunities for the Dutch to take advantage of the Danes but they don't.
Finally, the Dutch get too scary and the Danes pack up and head out in the middle of the night, only to immediately return to fetch a forgotten stuffed animal. Here they are cornered and browbeaten into staying. Silly and passive.
The Dutch continue make them totally uncomfortable, but they bed down again! Danish dad then has a little walkabout the property and finds a trove of luggage, scads of creepy pics and cameras, possessions of travelers AND finds the Dutch's murdered son so the Danes realize they need to run for their lives.
Of course, after successfully getting away for a second time AND refueling, he allows himself to be run off the road AND get stuck with the Dutch couple's henchman creepily observing from a distance.
The passive Danes make zero efforts to extricate themselves, such as rocking the vehicle, pushing while the other parent tries to drive it out, shove something beneath the tires, push it off the jack, etc. The Danish husband abandons his family to go for help. He gives up looking and finds his family abducted!?! Duh!
Then he's magically reunited with his family who are unaware but he already knows the plan is for the Dutch couple to kill them and keep their daughter as their own. He does nothing but try to keep his family calm. The henchman holds Danish mom while the Dutch lady cuts the daughter's tongue out with scissors. To prevent dad from intervening he is simply punched and begins to cry.
The daughter is removed and the Dutch couple drive the Danish couple to a quarry and order them to strip naked, which they do. Then the Dutch couple stone them to death. The only weapon ever brandished to these people is the scissors! They didn't even try to run.
Before being murdered Danish dad asks, "why"? Dutch dude says, "because you let me".
Either this was intentionally making some derogatory comment on the state of Danish people or this writing was criminally incompetent and lazy!
Please don't waste your time. It just rolls along with the threat of imminent torture porn. Fortunately in the end there's only a stoning, but how weak! I mean, no, I don't ever want to be in this situation but I would like to think I would attempt to remove their eyes with my fingernails or something. Or run and dodge the stones.
RUN!
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