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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  • Ashleigh 2022-03-21 09:02:44

    Piedran strands, mirror phase

  • Jaeden 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Four and a half stars, brilliant and very sad. The play in the play, the executioner wrote and acted by himself, is absurd and weird. No regrets, or self-deception, and finally put on the gold medal, was sick and vomited by himself. What a shocking and chilling value, what a distorted personality and regime.

The Act of Killing quotes

  • Anwar Congo: Imagine, in all this darkness, it's like we're living at the end of the world. We look around, there's only darkness. It's so very terrifying.

  • 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.