Yapto Soerjosoemarno

Yapto Soerjosoemarno

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    • Lambert 2022-03-26 09:01:10

      Who is singing the praises of the killers?

      What impresses me is not the killer's attitude towards the killing, or the final belated remorse. Hannah Arendt's summary of "banal evil" has long made me lose hope for the bottom line of so-called human morality. What strikes me is the acquiescence and admiration of the society for killing, as if...

    • Rubye 2022-03-21 09:02:44

      "act of killing"

      Some parts of this documentary made me extremely uncomfortable, and I chose to skip it. Their absurdity, their so-called self-comfort, their so-called joy. It's all built on the pain of other people's nightmares.

      A rogue is equal to a free man in a certain sense, which is really...

    • Joesph 2022-01-11 08:01:40

      A subject that can only be photographed by a Westerner, but the cognition is relatively superficial, and the director's skills are not enough, it is really a waste. The director's cut version is messy and loose.

    • Alia 2022-03-14 14:12:25

      The chaotic texture of ideological methodology is mixed with works with contradictory intentions. In fact, we should discuss the issue of the moral boundaries of filmmakers, especially documentaries themselves, in the creative process of this film, whether they can dominate and manipulate everything they shoot with their own objective standpoint like a dictator.

    The Act of Killing quotes

    • Anwar Congo: In my dreams they have threatening voices. They're like ghosts who hate me... They laugh, but frighteningly.

    • 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...