Killing Deduction

Kennedy 2022-04-19 09:02:36

In recent days, I suddenly discovered that a group of photos of the massacre of Chinese in Indonesia in 1998 started to go viral on the Internet. I couldn't help but wonder why Chinese people suddenly remembered to pay attention to this historical event. Later, I realized that it was because there was a finalist at the 86th Academy Awards a few days ago. The film nominated for the best documentary has attracted everyone's attention. Compared with the "98 Exclusion of China" that has been widely circulated by netizens recently, how many people know about the 65-year massacre. In one year, one million people were slaughtered, right next to us, just 49 years ago.

This film is different from most of the previous documentary narratives in that it uses a participant as the protagonist, and uses the participant's memories to describe and interpret the history. After appreciation, I have to praise this narrative method, which is more straightforward This kind of excavation and experience of the history from the re-interpretation of a participant adds to the artistry and reflection, and at the same time, understands the social state of Indonesia from one side.

This documentary was made by an American director. Sometimes I think that the Yankees are really bastards. Back then, they secretly led and instigated the Indonesian right-wing elements to overthrow the state power and fight against communism. The radical and crazy right-wing slaughtered the left and everything that was regarded as communism. A large number of Chinese were killed. Years later, the Yankees went to Indonesia to make a film to expose the past sins of the current Indonesian rulers. Really faceless.

China is also a strange flower. Indonesia killed your parents. You don’t publicize, don’t judge, and you are friendly. People in Indonesia are still proud of killing your parents. They still talk about the scene of killing your parents. . China, how can you feel, dare to ask you have dignity.

Asia, on this beautiful and rich continent, is growing up with all kinds of children with different personalities, such as corrupt China, perverted Japan, Indonesia ruled by hooligans, Vietnam armed by bandits, North Korea with crazy dictatorship, and the streets are full of monsters. Thailand, Indian Asam who was fooled by the West, Saudi Arabia, who was full of local tyrants, and Palestine, Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, etc.
Asia! The Asian continent is in full swing!

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  • Hertha 2022-04-22 07:01:43

    They came out of the giant fish and danced and sang.

  • Daija 2022-04-22 07:01:43

    The most astonishing documentary of the year, how can human nature be distorted in an extreme dictatorship regime? The slaughterers of the year never thought that there was anything wrong with their actions. Those who should be officials should be rich and should be actors. It's like being an actor in some countries.

The Act of Killing quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.