Director's Cut - Microcosm of the World

Joesph 2022-03-27 09:01:14

There's a sentence in the subtitles that doesn't seem to be in the movie.
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Human law prohibits killing, so generally murderers are punished;
but those who kill and brag about it get away with it.
——Voltaire

's overseas Chinese brothers in Indonesia are too miserable. They were mutilated in the 1960s. There seems to be a mutilation incident around 2000. Now they are still being publicly blackmailed in the 2010s!
But why did they leave their homeland and relatives and friends? Why run out to seek a life in such a sinister environment? Why go across thousands of mountains and rivers to go to that ghostly creature that is rampant?
Because it may be more dangerous to stay in certain places, to be extorted more ruthlessly there, and to be treated more terribly inhumanely there!
The old lunatic who kills more people there, because of his treatment and the privileges of his descendants, is still bragging about his illustrious military exploits in various ways. In fact, he kills many people.
Public extortion is rampant there. Their methods of blackmailing you are even more ruthless, ingenious and sinister to the extreme. You have to apologize and beg them, and they will reluctantly accept the protection fee you offered to me...
I mean the United States kills Indians , pay income tax, they won't go to the US, you know.....

Indonesian savages are not ashamed of killing so many people, they are proud of it, it's scary, but it's not surprising, because they It hasn't evolved well, and it's hardly human.
And whether it's true or not, the last old executioner was still tormented greatly, or his soul went to hell, and he has already received retribution from a spiritual level.
The movie is full of metaphors and satire, and my appreciation level is poor, and some of them don't understand it well. But at least it can be seen: the whole is probably just a microcosm!

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  • America 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Excellent topic and perspective; the old rogue's movie dream;

  • Anthony 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Can't fall asleep horizontally and vertically, open the U disk of history and see that every kind of doctrine is written - kill kill kill. Murderer is a projectionist at Paradise Cinema and his favorite actor is Al Pacino. Killers are collectors of crystal glass, protecting wetlands and waterfowl. The Murderer is the pink flamingo of the drag queen and the rehearsal of horror and brilliance. They crossed from Macondo through the Big Fish Mouth. The director shot a bunch of Sodom's material, but failed to cut it into "The Fall of the Patriarch", which became a guinea pig experiment, like a monkey greedy for human blood mixed with honey. The crew of "Khmer Rouge Killing Machine" and "Deduction of Killing" should be locked up with all the kind-hearted Chinese peasants in "The Tempest". Compared to "Fahrenheit 911", this kind of documentary should win the Palme d'Or

The Act of Killing quotes

  • Anwar Congo: What I regret... 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 will be burned down. What future do they have? They will curse us for the rest of their lives. This was so very, very, very...

  • 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.