?

Buster 2022-03-21 09:02:44

After so many years after the tragedy, the protagonist wants to escape his sins by shooting a movie. First of all, he still thinks his actions are evil compared to the protagonist's friend, and his friend still lives his own life in what he thinks is justice. Safe life. But how could such a sin be easily redeemed by making a movie? What impressed me is that he said to Joshua after finishing the film, I was enveloped in horror in the film, I felt the feeling of being executed by me, Joshua said you didn't, you were just waiting for the director to call cut, The people whose lives you have taken away are waiting for the end of their lives. Just like the movie's name-killing interpretation, in this country I don't seem to be developed, such evil can be played out, and in the society we live in, so much evil is whitewashed that we can't distinguish evil at all, and It's all evil, isn't it?

View more about The Act of Killing reviews

Extended Reading

The Act of Killing quotes

  • Anwar Congo: Why do people watch James Bond? To see action. Why do people watch films about Nazis? To see power and sadism! We can do that! We can make something even more sadistic than... more sadistic than what you see in movies about Nazis. Sure I can. Because there's never been a movie where heads get chopped off - except in fiction, but that's different - because I did it in real life!

  • Anwar Congo: Honestly, I never expected it would look this awful. My friends kept telling me to act more sadistic. But then I saw the women and children. Imagine those children's future. They've been tortured. Now their houses are burnt down. What future do they have? They will curse us for the rest of their lives. This was so very, very, very...