NEW YORK, KickandRush.blogspot.com - documentary film "The Act of Killing," about the massacre in Indonesia in 1960's Oscar-nominated 2014.
The film will be a tight fight was awarded Best Documentary versions 86th Academy Awards or Oscar 2014 along with four other films, "Cutie and the Boxer", "Dirty Wars", "The Square", and "20 Feet from Stardom".
"The Act of Killing" is directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. This film raised melancholy story about mass murder and impunity in Indonesia by a death squad leader named Anwar Congo, known vicious strangle hundreds of people just by using wire.
The work also involves Oppenheimer Werner Herzog and Errol Morris as executive producer and created by mostly Indonesian crew, also caused controversy because the story is not uncommon. Moreover, the reconstruction of the events has always been a source of dispute in the documentary world.
However, before Oppenheimer has done for a long debate to a new level by encouraging the perpetrators of human rights violators accountable for their crimes in the film and a global audience.
"I think it's our duty as a filmmaker, as people delve into the world, to create the most profound realities of the issues," Oppenheimer quoted the New York Times.
"This is a man, like us, who have to brag about unimaginable cruelty. And the question is, 'Why are they doing this? For whom are they doing this? What does it mean for them? How do they want to see? How do they see themselves?' And this method (the movie) is how to answer the questions, "he continued.
"The Act of Killing" is known to the West as the massacre of one million people in Indonesia in the era of military rule in the 1960s, in which the victims were labeled communists, but also targeting labor leaders, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese. Paramilitary groups that committed the murder at the behest of the Indonesian Armed Forces and with support from the United States and its allies by reason only worried that it would be like Vietnam and Indonesia fell to the communists.
In Indonesia, it is common knowledge events. "A kind of open secret, kept hidden discreetly so if you want, you can pretend it did not happen," said John Roosa, a scholar of Indonesian history at the University of British Columbia, and author of "pretext for Mass Murder", a book of leading the 1965 massacre.
"So the film has become provoke, encourage, citizen of Indonesia to ask, 'Tell us what's going on?'" He continued.
When it organized murder occurred in Indonesia which is the fourth most populous country in the world, but Oppenheimer focuses on Medan, North Sumatra. In the film also tells the story of a group called "gangster films", fans of John Wayne and Marlon Brando, who commit murders inspired from the movies they like."It feels like we are killing with pleasure," said Oppenheimer.
