shrinking time

Ray 2022-03-24 09:03:32

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"The Look of Silence", a story about the massacre of millions of communists by the Indonesian military government in 1965. After more than 40 years, I went to interview the "murderer" of that year. No one regrets it. I can't help but stop here, because the feelings and plots after watching the movie are silently entangled, making some things blurred and difficult to describe objectively. The movie is heavy, but I don't think anyone in it should be blamed -- blamed by the protagonist's solemn silence and contempt at the end, blamed, helpless and tearful eyes from time to time. I feel very pale, sad, and have a feeling that time is rotting, as if from the perspective of the film, this country is sealed in the cruel blood of the past, without blood, without hope, everything will soon grow old Like the mother of the protagonist, and like the father, in his 100s, he lost the ability to live, lost the memory of blood, shrank into a ball, scrambled and wept in the corner of his own house in horror, but still thought he was only 16 or 7 years old. .. I can't help but sadly wonder what kind of consciousness these two rotten old people have in their bodies to keep them alive, because maybe I will inevitably become one of them in the future...

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  • Jordane 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    It's a little more thoughtful than the pure disgust after watching "Deduction of Killing". The murderer and the TV station openly exaggerate about the past killing record, whether it is true as they say, completely brainwashed by political propaganda to think that what they are doing is really the right thing , just like the sense of honor that "killing heroes" felt during the Kuomintang-Communist war? But it was a battlefield after all, and it was a complete slaughter.

  • Joana 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Like its predecessor, "Deduction of Killing", "Silence" is still difficult to win an Oscar, because it has exceeded the aesthetic range of Oscars, just like "Basketball Dream". The only director Martin Scorsese liked in Toronto was Oppenheimer. This is because his works will be recorded in the annals of history, and not just film history.

The Look of Silence quotes

  • Joshua Oppenheimer: What support did you have from the Army?

    Amir Hasan - Former Leader of Death Squad: They waited at the road with the truck. They didn't come down here. They never came down here. They called this, 'The People's Struggle.' So, they kept their distance. If the Army was seen doing this, the world would be angry. 'The Army is killing Communists!' So, to protect their image they made it look like the people exterminated the Communists. But everybody knows the Army was behind it.

  • Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Tell me about that madness.

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Some killed so many people who have gone mad. A man climbed a palm tree, every morning, to call for prayer. Killed too many people. There is only one way to avoid it. Drink the blood or go crazy. But if you drink blood, you can do anything.

    Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: [Testing the eyeglasses] What do you think...

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Salty and sweet. The human blood.

    Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Pardon?

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Human blood is salty and sweet. I know from experience.