The Act of Killing Comments

  • Hertha 2022-04-22 07:01:43

    They came out of the giant fish and danced and...

  • Marcella 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    The clown takes the stage, the killing is repeated, the atrocity is not judged, the executioner is still fierce, and history is played out again in a playful way. The camera is the recorder, the witness, and the judge. Think of Bei Dao's "Answer": The mean is the pass of the mean, and the nobility is the epitaph of the noble. Look, in the gilded sky, full of the crooked reflections of the...

  • Jose 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    Fat Herman is an artist's...

  • Fernando 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    I don't agree with the way that the documentaries intervene in the creation of the recorded person, but the "off-screen play" in this film is the most appropriate and shining point, which leads the recorded person step by step to the "abyss of empathy" ". Another thing worth reading about the film is that it doesn't have any historical data or the victim's perspective. The director knows his direction and persistence, and finally creates a feeling that is more terrifying than the...

  • Elbert 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    The production team adheres to the extreme of "neutrality". The film itself has already explained that impulse and action are given priority, while thinking and theory belong to the behavior of making up the ticket after getting on the bus. When this happens, there's nothing better than Rifle in the...

  • Durward 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    The director's cognition of the incident is not deep enough and stays superficial, which leads to the overall looseness of the film. A waste of viewers' time. Even the creator of the movie doesn't know what he wants to express, whether it's a documentary or a joke, it's extremely absurd and...

  • Bailee 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    The director showed these pictures to the world naked, and the reason why he was able to shoot is that the executioners themselves thought their actions were just, and they were willing to show themselves to others. The director has a strong sense of intervention. He asked the executioners a little bit how to face up to the problem of that period of...

  • Eliseo 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    Human nature is...

  • Kennith 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    Very interesting record format, but too...

  • Virgil 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    The murderer tells the history of half a century ago in the way of filming, the lens in the lens, the image in the image, through the interpretation, the "real" attribute of "non-fiction film" has obtained a richer construction. In addition, I was deeply terrified when the vice president of Indonesia gave a speech at a rally in the rogue organization Pemuda Pancasila, who unabashedly equated "gangster" with "free men", saying that the country needs "free...

Extended Reading
  • Chance 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    [New York Times] Behind Indonesia's Holocaust Documentary: Fear Is Not Over

    The movie CARA BUCKLEY July 22, 2015
    Adi Laquin in a scene in the documentary "The Image of Silence".
    Drafthouse Films/Participant Media
    Adi Laquin in a scene from the documentary "The Image of Silence."
    In "The Act of Killing," which was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary,...

  • Jake 2022-03-23 09:02:46

    The Act of Killing

    The so-called family shame cannot be made public, but when it is not considered a family shame, it is another matter. I believe that in the era of the Cultural Revolution, those Red Guards must have been proud of what they had done, and even boasted that they had killed several bourgeoisie. But...

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!