Rogue society

Elmer 2022-01-11 08:01:40

Without narration, the executioners in the film consciously assumed the role of narrators. They talked about it as if they were reminiscing about the glorious years of the army. The funny thing is that they don't understand how absurd and ridiculous their behavior is in the eyes of the audience, including their seriousness when making movies.

Westerners who made documentary films were also Westerners who instigated and supported military coups. Their original intention may not be massacre, but all this is inevitable. When the executioners talked about American gangsters or spy war movies, such as "The Godfather" and "007", they have a strong sense of substitution, even a sense of superiority. I have really killed people, they are no actors. You like to watch slaughter, we can shoot better because we have experienced it.

This is to let gangsters watch movies, they can only see blood and carnage, and nothing else.

It seems to be the result of the penetration of Western values, but it is not. This kind of clumsy imitation is like a deformed freak. People can't guess why they grow up like this. They want to stifle them but they are not allowed.

In order to reinterpret the scenes of the massacre in the past, they persuaded the common people to be extras, pushed the old man, and clamored to burn your house. The old man's grandson hugged his grandfather tightly, and they could see that there was real panic in their eyes. , Not the superb acting skills. What's more sad is that the crowds onlookers are like passers-by in any historical event, clapping their hands happily, not knowing who they are cheering for.

Every time they demonstrate how to kill people, I am afraid that they will do a fake show.

Seeing them enthusiastically preparing to make a movie, I thought that maybe they are pure, pure to ignorant, ignorant to terrible, thinking that such a thing will be filmed and everyone will like to watch it.

The executioner named Adi is considered a thinking person. Many of the things he said may represent the psychology of those who have a certain knowledge background.

"In order not to make myself feel guilty, I have to find a legitimate reason for killing."

"The Communist Party is not as cruel as we are."

"You have nightmares because your will is not firm enough."

But such a person. Even if he said such words, he wouldn't have the slightest guilt for his indiscriminate killing of innocent people, especially when it comes to killing Chinese. Such people, as the shooting progresses, feel that if the documentary is successful, it will cause a 360-degree reversal of the government's image and history. It is this kind of person who has not been condemned by his conscience, nor is he tortured by nightmares night after night.

A survivor, the so-called descendant of the Communist Party, is like telling a joke, jokingly portraying his father who was hacked to death in the massacre. Such a person seems even more terrifying. But maybe he said this so that the executioners would not feel criticized after listening. A way of survival.


Newspaper reporters who tried to distinguish themselves from the incident were despised by the butchers, demonstrating that they never concealed what they had done. In this regard, it seems to be stronger than a certain ethnic group.

The hooligan who was running for Congress looked at himself in the mirror, listened to Obama's speech, and sorted out his expressions and appearances. Even if such a rascal has not yet become a civil servant, he begins to figure out how to get money from everyone's pocket. The so-called bandit with a tie.

In a word, I have never liked this country ever since.

At the beginning of the film, Anwar took the director to the massacre location, relaxed and with a little bragging tone to talk about his past, resetting his way of killing, and at the end of the film, he dragged his heavy body and opened it blankly. With both eyes, he asked if his behavior was a crime, and then he held on to the wall and kept retching. . .

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  • Chelsey 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    too real to be surrealistic

  • Scotty 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    No matter which path a barbarian nation chooses, it will be dehumanizing, and they dare to say that if communism comes to power, this country will still be reluctant to die without millions of people. Under the lens of Jehovah, the grotesque was born in a violent world, and every bit of exaggerated acting skills on the simple set comes from the animal nature and numbness in the heart. Horror scenes, fake blood plasma, hugging his grandson to watch the scene of grandfather's execution, teaching the child to be kind to small animals, retching in the execution ground, and being greeted by an exaggerated paradise and fairy aunt.

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.