The Act of Killing

[YMix]

Joshua Oppenheimer: 'You celebrate mass killing so you don't have to look yourself in the mirror'

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Should've put it in some trailers thread.

[Nonc Hilaire]

WTF?

[Enki]

I saw this preview when I saw the film "The East", Tony Scott's last film about a cell of eco-terrorists. Fantastic film, highly recommended.

I want to see this, it seems really super intense.

[Parodite]

Torrent

[Endovelico]

Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.

[Nonc Hilaire]

Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.

Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.

[Parodite]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep ... ing-review

When Werner Herzog says a film is the most frightening and most surreal he's seen in at least a decade, you know need to steel yourself. He's right. Here's the best, and the most horrific, movie of this year's Toronto film festival.

It's a documentary about the Indonesian death squads of the mid-1960s who tortured and killed communists. But it's also a film within a film, as director Joshua Oppenheimer urges the ageing gangsters to recreate their acts on increasingly elaborate scale (prosthetics, props, drag outfits, soundtrack, location shooting). They grin and mug just as they also take it very, very seriously. A strangulation scene is interrupted by the call for evening prayers. But they return after their ablutions.

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This documentary made me feel lost in Hell. It's astonishing.

[jerryberry]

I'm an 1.5 hrs in and it's pretty creepy. I'm almost tempted to dehumanize these thugs and suggest they don't have the capacity to feel regret. But, their confessions or recollections suggest otherwise. I was pretty depressed when the actor spoke of burying his father in a ditch on the side of the road.

[Typhoon]

The veneer of civilization is very thin.

[Ibrahim]

I would probably have watched this if it was a straight-up documentary, but having these guys recreate their crimes is off-putting to me.

[jerryberry]

At one point, a younger man who has been enlisted to play a torture victim relates the gruesome story of his stepfather’s abduction and murder by, one suspects, his fellow cast members. He tells the tale as if it were a joke, chuckling and assuring the others that he isn’t blaming or criticizing them, and he goes on to give a performance that is almost unbearably credible.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/mo ... wanted=all

It seemed like the captured was trying to appease their abductor. As the scene unraveled I could only think of the lack of dignity for the stepfather and of course the child. I still haven't finished the movie.

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

Leaving children unsupervised. How long until they determine that older brother had an unwitting hand in it?........

[noddy]

we all have a capacity to swallow our emotional response and grind out the unpleasant parts of life.

its only a tiny step from there.

[Demon of Undoing]

Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.

Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.

So you don't like John Waters films.

[Nonc Hilaire]

Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.

Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.

So you don't like John Waters films.

Not really. Karen Finley has no appeal to me either. Both are art school level workers who rely on rearranging old constructs instead of creating new ones.

[Ibrahim]

Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.

Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.

So you don't like John Waters films.

Waters gives an excellent interview and is probably an engaging dinner guest, but his films are junk. Still, I'd rather watch them on a loop than some ex-death squad member reenact his career highlights. Personal preference.