The Look of Silence Comments

  • Jordane 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    It's a little more thoughtful than the pure disgust after watching "Deduction of Killing". The murderer and the TV station openly exaggerate about the past killing record, whether it is true as they say, completely brainwashed by political propaganda to think that what they are doing is really the right thing , just like the sense of honor that "killing heroes" felt during the Kuomintang-Communist war? But it was a battlefield after all, and it was a complete...

  • Kadin 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    The same theme as "Deduction of Killing", the difference is that this film uses the perspective of individual families of the victims of the Holocaust to question the murderers who live nearby, some of them are relatives. Many years have passed, the victims have grown old, and the murderers have lived happily and without shame under the government's awards. If a nation does not have the courage to face evil, it is hard to expect it will not reappear. This is also the problem we need to face...

  • Hans 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    The sequel to "Killing Kingdom" is a kind of documentary that makes people feel uncomfortable. Just like in documentaries, most people choose to be silent and forget, but someone really needs to uncover this scar and see the indifference and cruelty of human...

  • Vaughn 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    The confrontation between massacre victims and murderers is wrapped in the structure of history, power, and memory. The uselessness of language is replaced by silence, and all the drama is on people's faces. The end credits are the...

  • Ernestina 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    It's plainer than "The Act of Killing", but the effect is more shocking, and many dialogues are powerful; maybe this is a set shot, but everyone in the film is actually very aware of what they are doing and expresses their attitude; the protagonist and director are bold Full, also called the audience to reflect...

  • Hailee 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    The murderers are still in power, and they are still talking about the process of their murders with relish, without any repentance at all, making people extremely angry and feeling powerless, what is the reason for heaven?...

  • Camylle 2022-03-20 09:02:45

    The director said that he heard a particularly crisp sound of crickets among the sixteen soundtracks that make up the background sound of the static landscape, which is Ramdi's lone soul. Let people who have been oppressed for more than 50 years regain the right to mourn the dead, so that children no longer suffer from this deep scalp fear. This is the ultimate goal of dialogue with the...

  • Aditya 2022-03-20 09:02:45

    Throughout the 20th century, East Asia, Central Asia, Africa, South America, and some countries in Southeast Asia, the massacre of people labelled as "communism", or the massacre of non-communist massacres by communists in the name of communism, the tide. The history of more than 70 years is silent so...

  • Kaylee 2022-03-20 09:02:45

    Two movies change a...

  • Maddison 2022-03-20 09:02:45

    Joshua's second feature-length documentary won the 2014 Venice Jury Prize. Also focusing on the 1965 massacre in Indonesia, this film does not have the surreal scenes of the previous film "Deduction of Killing", but adopts a more approachable and real interview format, allowing the victim's family to face the executioner. However, the victims chose to forget because of fear, the butchers had no regrets, and the history in the classroom was repeatedly tampered with, which was chilling. Optometry...

Extended Reading
  • Reinhold 2022-01-22 08:01:30

    From "Killing Deduction" to "The Silent Image": Revolution encounters barbarism, evading the pursuit

    This is a secret history that involves two countries. However, whether it is the perpetrator or the victim, it seems that they are reluctant to mention this history, and would rather this history no longer exist. On the contrary, in the international community, this period of history has always...

  • Andres 2022-01-22 08:01:30

    The crime of massacre was forgotten in Java

    Adi's father hadn't remembered things a long time ago. He was paralyzed in a wheelchair, like a fluffy piece of expired lean meat, pulled to bed by his wife, and wiped his scattered limbs over and over again. He forgot about his age and repeatedly said that he was only sixteen or seventeen,...

The Look of Silence quotes

  • Joshua Oppenheimer: What support did you have from the Army?

    Amir Hasan - Former Leader of Death Squad: They waited at the road with the truck. They didn't come down here. They never came down here. They called this, 'The People's Struggle.' So, they kept their distance. If the Army was seen doing this, the world would be angry. 'The Army is killing Communists!' So, to protect their image they made it look like the people exterminated the Communists. But everybody knows the Army was behind it.

  • Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Tell me about that madness.

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Some killed so many people who have gone mad. A man climbed a palm tree, every morning, to call for prayer. Killed too many people. There is only one way to avoid it. Drink the blood or go crazy. But if you drink blood, you can do anything.

    Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: [Testing the eyeglasses] What do you think...

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Salty and sweet. The human blood.

    Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Pardon?

    Himself, former leader the village death squad: Human blood is salty and sweet. I know from experience.