The Act of Killing
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The Act of Killing
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.
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Should've put it in some trailers thread.
“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
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WTF?
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Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
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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.
I want to see this, it seems really super intense.
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- Endovelico
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Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.
- Nonc Hilaire
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Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.Endovelico wrote:Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep ... ing-review
This documentary made me feel lost in Hell. It's astonishing.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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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.
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The veneer of civilization is very thin.
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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.
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http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/mo ... wanted=allAt 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.
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.
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Leaving children unsupervised. How long until they determine that older brother had an unwitting hand in it?........
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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.
its only a tiny step from there.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.Endovelico wrote:Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.
So you don't like John Waters films.
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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.Demon of Undoing wrote:Nonc Hilaire wrote:Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.Endovelico wrote:Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.
So you don't like John Waters films.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
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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.Demon of Undoing wrote:Nonc Hilaire wrote:Agreed. This is depravity. It's worse than eating poop and calling it art.Endovelico wrote:Killing, in any form or shape, is utterly obscene. I'm not going to see it.
So you don't like John Waters films.