The head on the wire is his dentures

Merl 2022-03-27 09:01:14

Plain and radical shots give the film a sense of inner contradiction. From beginning to end, it is like walking between tropical rain forests and high-rise buildings, sometimes heaven and sometimes hell, and an old man who is still teaching his grandson to be gentle with animals in the last second. , in the next moment, he began to recall his past killings. Murder, blackmail, rape, and arson are all accompanied by whispers, and when these things are repeated in a movie again, they can scare people speechless.

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Extended Reading
  • Dolores 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    opening screen bunker

  • Chelsey 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    too real to be surrealistic

The Act of Killing quotes

  • Jusuf Kalla - Vice President of Indonesia: [addressing a large Pancasilla gathering] The spirit of Pancasilla Youth - which people accuse of being gangsters - Gangsters are people who work outside the system - not for the government. The word "gangster" comes from "free men". This nation needs "free men"! If everyone worked for the government - we'd be a nation of bureaucrats. We'd get nothing done. We need gangsters to get things done. Free, private men who get things done. Use your muscles! Muscles aren't for beating people up - though beating people up is sometimes needed.

    [Audience laughs]

    Jusuf Kalla - Vice President of Indonesia: Once more, Pancasilla! Forever! Pancasilla! Freedom!

  • 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!