The Act of Killing Comments

  • Ellen 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    ""They Are Addicted to Lies"" http://www.infzm.com/content/88278-The most poetic scene of the movie is Anwar the Killer's song and dance film: a graceful dancer spit out from a fish's mouth. Director Oppenheim defaulted to a four-story big fish representing human illusions: "Some illusions lead us to kill and establish a terrorist regime on top of the...

  • Ashleigh 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    The most popular film for next year's Oscar Documentary Awards. Nearly 50 years ago, during the "anti-communist" purges of the Indonesian military government, more than one million people, including the Chinese, were massacred. The director invited the killers of the year to re-interpret their atrocities in the style of imagining Hollywood blockbusters, called "Deduction of...

  • Leta 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    Killing is sin, power is morality, and confession must be replaced and feared. The truth is not all correct, how can the macro and micro levels of judgment span? The performance is fictitious, but the performers and events are real, and the celebration after the act is over shows the human nature between the real and the virtual. Documentaries always make viewers angry and reflective, but they are powerless, and the parties continue to operate in their own tracks. Race and language clearly have...

  • Teagan 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    In Indonesia in the 1960s, the government legalized the blind stream organization and used it to massacre dissidents. The servants who are not held accountable, even regarded as national heroes, want to cherish the memory of their glorious history in the name of the movie. Therefore, the evil of human nature, for the first time, I can see myself clearly in the reappearance of art. "But we should have done nothing wrong, or why no one will punish...

  • 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...

  • 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...

Extended Reading
  • Merl 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    The head on the wire is his dentures

    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....

  • Mark 2022-03-23 09:02:46

    indescribably complex

    This documentary is far more than just filling in the cognition of historical blind spots. Many times, it has the effect of absurd magic realism. The structure of the play within the play, as well as the parallel narrative of reviewing history and filming life, makes people trance from time to...

The Act of Killing quotes

  • Anwar Congo: It's a good family movie; plenty of humor; a great story; Wonderful scenery. It really show what's special about our country even though it's a film about death.

  • 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!