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Aryanna 2022-04-20 09:02:10
This is the brilliance of human nature - the admirable executioner
The overview of this film mentions the 1965 Indonesian massacre. I have seen other film critics either stick to the incident itself, or jump out of the way to talk about documentaries from thousands of miles away, which makes me very disappointed with the ideological activities of the Chinese...
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Obie 2022-04-20 09:02:10
Lucifer in Killing Interpretation
This review was written in 2014. "Pretend to be in New York" also wrote a review, contrasting with his article, and I learned a lot.
This time I want to review the documentary "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer. It was nominated for an Oscar in 2014. Not winning an Oscar is normal. Although...
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Isadore 2022-04-22 07:01:43
Please Shakyamuni to deal with these executioners!
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Daniela 2022-03-29 09:01:06
Very shocking. I watched the director's cut version, because it was a screening back to my alma mater, and the director also did a Q&A on the spot. The protagonist of the documentary is the main executioner of the 1965 anti-communist massacre in Indonesia, killing more than a thousand people with his own hands. The director asked him to make a fictional film that recreated the crime he had committed, and the executioner readily agreed. It's like watching Arendt's "Mediocre Evil", but it's more shocking: the executioner gradually changed his understanding of himself in the process of directing
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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.
