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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.