Chinese can't bear to look back

Alexander 2022-03-20 09:02:20

I'm amazed that an in-depth anthropological documentary would be a hit and a commercial success.

Very simple, let the sinners who killed the parents of Han Chinese in Jakarta act out their crimes. This kind of temporal overlap makes people feel even more terrifying and terrifying!

But after thinking about it, you will find that this is the narrowest human will, performing itself.

Like Hamlet's ravings in the dark, where is his hatred? Where is his enemy? Where is the justice he seeks?

Many good friends, especially anthropology professors, especially like this movie.

After all, there are too few films that both tell the truth and gain insight into human nature.

PS The sequel is also great, but I didn't add it in order not to repeat it in this 30-part series. You can see for yourself.

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Extended Reading
  • Jane 2022-03-30 09:01:06

    Filming is not only a pretext for recording, but also assisting the parties to recall. It presents subjective things in form. More importantly, it is the reaction force of the behavioral intervention method on the parties. Of course, Herzog likes these slightly crazy attempts when facing a lunatic. , just because the final introspection plot of the film is dubious.

  • Elwyn 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    It seems that it is a good thing that the executioners have a little literary pursuit, at least they will have the pursuit of pouring out their thoughts. PS: I really want to re-cut it for the director. . . 【8】

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.