The real killing is far more complicated than the hypothetical brutality. It dissects the inner structure of a personality that we can't define with morals!

Zack 2022-03-21 09:02:44

One of the things about documentaries that is difficult for films to achieve is the distance between it and the "reality". The fictional interpretation of this killing is largely a realization of the documentary-style "legitimate copy", but it is more thorough. Chopped up a more dramatic reality, trying to imagine a more fractured morality between the executioners and our wider public under the constraints of morality, seeing the blurred boundary between morality and this violent personality The difference in the possibility of personality exists in the film, I think this difference is precisely the core of the most artistic value of the film, you can't let real actors perform this way, but you can find them from real characters, so real characters restore them The inner world and such an act of killing are bound to be in controversy. We see even more different art. Movies will not go and explore this art, and documentaries are actually difficult to really explore. However, this work It has been extremely close to this reality, although its time span deposits the killings of that period in the personage of the current characters, and the content level is the most profound expression of politics and violence I have ever seen, even those with nonsensical reduction and violence. A conspicuous slaughtering glory that shocks us that real characters are so different from what we imagine them to be, and with the interplay of reality and reality, when the real character supposedly restores the group they were killed, when he becomes the one who was killed by him. We can no longer feel the impact on their spiritual world. In that process and at the moment, a new personality has actually been born to cover the original one. This is the more complicated part of the movie. It does not The guilt and self-reproach designed as an appearance, but a deeper surging under the calm!

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  • 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...