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Obligatory plug for The Act of Killing, an absolutely surreal documentary about the Indonesian mass killings and what happened to the PKI after independence. B
by teractiveodular 2y ago
Obligatory plug for The Act of Killing, an absolutely surreal documentary about the Indonesian mass killings and what happened to the PKI after independence. Basically, they get some of the perps of mass murder to re-enact their crimes on camera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
- cma 2y agoI found this interview on it better than the documentary itself (which scrubbed out a lot of the US role): https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/7/19?autostart=true https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/7/19?autostart=true
- stevenwoo 2y agoThis was really well made and hard to watch, it just made me seethe with anger due to the openly admitted murder and injustice and I could not finish it.
- netsharc 2y agoThis movie/documentary is about that, but also a very incredible look into how we hide and justify our past actions, involving a lot of lying to ourselves. The "movie" they were supposedly making even had a surreal scene of "victims" dancing with "angels" by a waterfall and giving their killer a medal, thanking him for saving them from communism and godlessness and sending them to heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ta9To14yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ta9To14yw ; which is obviously how the killer prefers how his actions are received.