Theatre of the oppressors: role reverse in the victims' roles.
All about trauma: the need of taking the places of the others.
How about the survivors of Cultu-ral Revo-lution in China?
Thinking of my own trauma... Then, to survive!
All about politics: Political movement hurts people! When the country was demolished to engage in the ultra-left communist movement in 1966, Indonesia began an anti-communist and anti-China paramilitary movement. A large number of young people were organized into militias and murdered...
Such young militias were agitated to promote their so-called pro-American "freedom" ideology. . They don't dislike the evaluation of them by outsiders: gangster, they also said that the word comes from "free man" (and it is a fact that they charge protection fees).
How ridiculous and ridiculous is extreme right and extreme left!
Now the Indonesian government has not pleaded guilty, and any leftist views are taboos in the local society. Any activity of the Youth Army is "correct". Even the film and the theater itself are still understood from time to time to positively promote the official position. During the rehearsal, children and women were frightened, but the legionary leader comforted them with "correctness and courage".
The protagonist Anwar stated that most of the children grew up in bloody, official films that vilified the Communist Party and were traumatized. However, the brutality of the youth army under the official connivance was ignored.
The reappearance of the scene did not make Anwar a little relaxed. He repeatedly experienced the torture of the survivors in the theater (ie the role reversal of drama therapy) and explained the methods of execution of them (such as when he strangled the "Communists" with iron wire. ). Anwar tried to "atonement" (the director called it "The Theater of the Oppressor"). However, others did not confess in the film and the theater, and sometimes even thought it was evidence that they were "just anti-communist". And his past "brave in the past."
This film will be protested by the Indonesian government.
It is hard to imagine that the Chinese can survive in this kind of society.
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