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Kathryne 2022-03-26 09:01:10
evil in human nature
I remember that a scholar proposed that the human world is divided into the children of light and the children of darkness, and the same is true for human nature. After
watching the two-length documentary, it is very complicated, sad, and cannot see through the human nature, and how many sins are... -
Halle 2022-03-26 09:01:10
where is the humanity
I was looking for it while watching the film, but fortunately I found it in the end, that trace of human nature. All it takes is to put yourself in the other person's shoes for a moment. I also suddenly understand why there are so many people in the US military who are psychologically traumatized...
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Marcella 2022-04-21 09:03:01
The clown takes the stage, the killing is repeated, the atrocity is not judged, the executioner is still fierce, and history is played out again in a playful way. The camera is the recorder, the witness, and the judge. Think of Bei Dao's "Answer": The mean is the pass of the mean, and the nobility is the epitaph of the noble. Look, in the gilded sky, full of the crooked reflections of the dead.
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Bryana 2022-03-27 09:01:14
Probably the best documentary I've seen this year. potential top ten of the year. The director's live Q&A was quite predictable, so much so that I even went to thank him in person after the show.
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Adi Zulkadry - Fellow Executioner in 1965: We crushed their necks with wood. We hung them. We strangled them with wire. We cut off their heads. We ran them over with cars. We were allowed to do it. And, the proof is we murdered people and were never punished. The people we killed, there's nothing to be done about it. They have to accept it. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better, but it works: I've never felt guilty, never been depressed, never had nightmares.
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Anwar Congo: Did the people I tortured feel the way I do here? I can feel what the people I tortured felt. Because here my dignity has been destroyed, and then fear come, right there and then. All the terror suddenly possessed my body. It surrounded me, and possessed me.
Joshua Oppenheimer: Actually, the people you tortured felt far worse, because you knew it's only a film. They knew they were being killed.
Anwar Congo: But I can feel it, Josh. Really, I feel it. Or have I sinned. I did this to so many people, Josh. Is it all coming back to me? I really hope it won't. I don't want it to, Josh.
