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Seconding The Act of Killing. Imagine if the Nazis had won WWII and random low level SS members just walked around totally proud of the stuff they did during the war and were open about talking about it. Basically, the film interviews guys (who were and are just common criminals) who were part of right-wing death squads in Indonesia killing communists (or anyone suspected of being a communist) in the 1960s. The filmmaker also gets them to reinact things they did in the style of different kids of movie genres and the results are extremely weird and hosed up. It's pretty much a character study in different kinds of sociopaths - there's a bid dumb guy, a weaselly politically minded guy, and this guy that will not stop loving bragging about strangling people. The most depressing scenes are a rally of the biggest right wing youth group in Indonesia today and also when the guys reinact burning a "communist" village and raping/killing people, except you can tell the actors (who are random villagers they are paying) are completely freaked out and don't really get it is a movie. And of course the ending, where you think one of the guys kind of gets that he is a bad person, but then immediately represses it and goes back to normal. OMG BYZANTIUM has a new favorite as of 12:47 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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