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Jewish filmmaker's The Act of Killing
is an unsettling and surprising
journey into the imaginations
of mass murderers.

George Robinson

fortune to belong to the soon-to-be
outlawed and crushed union move-
ments. They were all called "commu-
he Act of Killing, running
nists" and beaten to death.
this weekend and next at
The primary instruments of these
the Detroit Film Theatre, is
murders were young street toughs,
a mysterious film, a documentary
self-proclaimed gangsters who had
that appears to be equal parts South
begun their careers as petty crimi-
Asian musical epic, gangster noir
nals enthralled by the violent images
and political/historical essay. The
produced by Hollywood and dis-
movie's oddly hybrid nature is largely played on their local movie screens.
the result of the strange and sinister
Today, more than a decade after
reality that Joshua Oppenheimer, the
the New Order government headed
director, found when he first went
by General Suharto was ostensibly
to Indonesia, the film's location and
brought down and replaced by a
subject.
democracy, these now-elderly men
The 38-year-old filmmaker
are encouraged to brag about the
describes the Asian island nation this horrors they committed for the pur-
way:
pose of keeping local popula-
"It's as if I'm in
tions docile.
Germany 40 years after
Oppenheimer began work
the war, and the Nazis are
on a film about the attempt
still in power. The aging
to organize plantation work-
SS officers are encour-
ers in Northern Sumatra,
aged to boast of what
eventually released in 2003 as
they've done. This serves
The Globalization Tapes. He
two purposes — it keeps
recalls his reaction to the sti-
the public afraid, and it
fling atmosphere of fear and
helps [the killers] live
intimidation he experienced
Filmmaker
with the reality of their
filming the surviving victims
actions. They boast about Joshua
of the 1965 violence and their
Oppenheim er
families.
it as a way of insisting
"I remember feeling, 'I will give
that what they did is, in fact, some-
thing they can live with:'
this whatever it takes of my life:"
This, Oppenheimer says, is the
he says now. "I knew that I would
reality of Indonesia, nearly 40 years
have to give this situation whatever
after the 1965 coup that brought
it takes."
It was his own family his-
down the Sukarno government in a
welter of brutality, torture and mur-
tory that motivated him to spend
der. It is estimated that more than a
nearly 15 years shuttling back and
million Indonesians were murdered
forth between Indonesia and his
by minions of the junta: The victims
home (first in London, now in
were communists, labor organiz-
Copenhagen), making three films
ers, countless ethnic Chinese and
about the aftermath of the massacres.
ordinary laborers who had the mis-
The Act of Killing is the second film

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