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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  • 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...