{"id":3187,"date":"2013-08-02T00:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2013-08-07T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T22:30:16","slug":"the-act-of-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=3187","title":{"rendered":"The Act of Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cinema City are doing a one-off screening of this film on Tuesday 06 August at 6pm. Here is the link to the cinema’s site, where tickets can also be purchased:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.picturehouses.co.uk\/cinema\/Cinema_City\/film\/The_Act_Of_Killing\/<\/a><\/div>\n

Following the Indonesian military coup of 1965, paramilitaries helped the army to massacre more than a million alleged communists in less than a year. To this day, these shocking acts are portrayed domestically as a patriotic struggle, and their perpetrators are celebrated as national heroes.<\/p>\n

Documentarist Oppenheimer\u2019s attempts to tell the tale of the genocide\u2019s survivors were obstructed by the Indonesian authorities \u2013 but the killers themselves proved happy to appear on film. He invited the perpetrators to stage filmed re-enactments of their killings, with a twist: they would be performed in the style of their favourite Hollywood genre films.<\/p>\n

The incredible result is a hallucinatory journey into the minds of mass killers, and a staggering testament to the frighteningly banal culture of impunity they continue to inhabit.<\/p>\n

“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal and frightening in at least a decade.” \u2013 Werner Herzog<\/p>\n

As you can tell, then, the film is concerned with human rights and war crimes in general, but makes its point in a somewhat passive way, insofar as the criminals themselves do the meaning-making.<\/p>\n

The film has also received excellent critical acclaim:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “The most compelling thing you’ll ever see” \u2013 The Guardian<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605”An utterly fascinating, chilling, but important film” \u2013 Independent\u00a0on Saturday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Shatteringly powerful” 5 \u2013 The\u00a0Sunday<\/span><\/span> Times<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “This might be the most important documentary ever.” \u2013 The Daily Mail<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Simply the best film of the year” \u2013 The Metro<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Like no movie seen before” \u2013 The Financial Times<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Unlike anything else out there” \u2013 Little White Lies<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Staggeringly original” \u2013 Time Out<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “A devastating, surreal must-see” \u2013 The Evening Standard<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Shocking and surreal” \u2013 The Skinny<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “A strange and startling documentary” \u2013 The Arts Desk<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 “Challenges the very limitations of what a documentary can be ” \u2013 CineVue<\/span><\/div>\n

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Do let me know if you think you can spread the word. And please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any more queries.<\/p>\n

All the best<\/p>\n

Patrick Sale<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cinema City are doing a one-off screening of this film on Tuesday 06 August at 6pm. Here is the link to the cinema’s site, where tickets can also be purchased: http:\/\/www.picturehouses.co.uk\/cinema\/Cinema_City\/film\/The_Act_Of_Killing\/ Following the Indonesian military coup of 1965, paramilitaries helped the army to massacre more than a million alleged communists in less than a year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}