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Anwar Congo: Why do people watch James Bond? To see action. Why do people watch films about Nazis? To see power and sadism! We can do that! We can make something even more sadistic than... more sadistic than what you see in movies about Nazis. Sure I can. Because there's never been a movie where heads get chopped off - except in fiction, but that's different - because I did it in real life!
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Anwar Congo: Honestly, I never expected it would look this awful. My friends kept telling me to act more sadistic. But then I saw the women and children. Imagine those children's future. They've been tortured. Now their houses are burnt down. What future do they have? They will curse us for the rest of their lives. This was so very, very, very...
Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Oppenheimer) , born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA, is an American director and producer.
In 1995, directed his first documentary short film "Hugh"
[1]
. In 1997, directed the documentary short film "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase"
[2]
, which won the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2003, the short documentary "Market Update" directed by him was released
[1]
. In 2007, directed the documentary short film "Show of Force". In 2012, directed the documentary " The Act of Killing "
[3]
, which was nominated for the 86th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature
[4]
. In 2014, directed the documentary " The Look of Silence " and served as the producer of the film
[5]
. The film won the main competition unit of the 71st Venice International Film Festival-Jury Prize
[6]
. In 2016, he served as a judge for the main competition unit of the 73rd Venice Film Festival
[7]
. In 2017, he served as the guest director of the Telluride Film Festival
[8]
.
Performing Experience
In 1995, directed his first documentary short film "Hugh"
. In 1996, directed the documentary short film "These Places We've Learned to Call Home"
. In 1997, directed the documentary "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase"
, which won the Chicago International Film Festival Golden Hugo Award; in the same year, he served as the director of the documentary "The Challenge of Manufacturing"
.
In 2003, directed the documentary short film "Market Update"
; in the same year, he served as the director of the documentary short film "A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches"
. In 2004, the documentary short film "Postcard from Sun City, Arizona"
directed by him was released ; in the same year, he directed the documentary short film "Muzak: a tool of management"
. In 2007, directed the documentary short film "Show of Force".
In 2012, directed the documentary " The Act of Killing "
, which repeated the bloody massacre of opposition personnel by the Indonesian military government
. The film was nominated for the 86th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature Film
.
In 2014, directed the documentary " The Look of Silence " and served as the producer of the
film. The film reproduced the brutal massacre of so-called "leftists" during the Indonesian purge in the 1960s from the perspective of the perpetrator. The film was nominated for the No. The 88th Oscar Award for Best Documentary
Feature Film won the Jury Prize, the main competition unit of the 71st Venice International Film Festival
.
In 2016, he served as a judge for the main competition unit of the 73rd Venice Film Festival
. In 2017, he served as the guest director of the Telluride Film Festival
.
Personal Life
Joshua Oppenheimer is openly gay and lives with his partner Shu in Copenhagen, Denmark
.
Character Evaluation
In the documentary "The Look of Silence", he managed two perspectives of a complex subject with ease. As a director, his talent is surprising. He has a deep understanding of art and film, and his films are much more than political expressions . He has always paid attention to the lower class people, to ordinary laborers and souls who desire freedom, and to the original sin and human nature of mankind. He dared to ask questions of the ruling class, insisting on expressing with unique and stylized images, using images to express through events, through packaged language, through the eyes, skins and all other decorations of characters, and point to the heart. Perhaps because of Fei’s special way of speaking in the fictional film itself, or perhaps because Oppenheimer has gained the deep recognition and trust of his subjects, so that he can fully show those small, fragmented, or angry in his works. , A meaningful picture. What’s more valuable is that in Oppenheimer’s story, there are no ambiguities. He appears to be very firm in all the thinking process. He discards the established mode of expression and makes the story seem more rough. Perhaps this is him. The original appearance of the humanity that I know and want to show .
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