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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  • 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...