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~aesthetics~
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this is amazing
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description looks really good, will watch later, thnx
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i think this is my favorite thing that herzog has worked on in the last few years.
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D.C.
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Oh word this is a Herzog production? Definitely watching now, thanks
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herzog and morris had nothing to do with it, they just slapped their names on it like francis ford coppola did with koyaanisqatsi. kool flick tho
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The director is Joshua Oppenheimer, Herzog and Morris just lent their names to give the title greater exposure/credibility.
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This was great! Those commies really got what was coming to 'em!

Bless you Mr Congo!
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major props to the commander who is giving an acting lesson to children whom he needs to act as if there is a home burning for one reenactment. future career as stage dad/acting coach.
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Kurdt
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pallywood...
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Indonesia is fucked up, i can't wait til they try and invade us so we kick their ass and get ourselves some colonies
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herzog does it again. His best yet.
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ah it got taken off yt. yall should track it down tho its good...

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GOD FUFKER DAMMIT. WATS IT CALLED
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The Act of Killing
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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tpaine posted:

wait. was this herzog thing or not.

Herzog attached his syllables to the film to make it a more noticed film. Last year he did this with Happy People which is about trappers in the Siberian Taiga. If i remember correctly Happy People was originally a film series (tv show?) made by the guy who is cocredited with Herzog. Herzog edited the footage, maybe added some cut stuff or whatever, and put his english narration throughout, so you'd at least have something nice to listen to if disappointed by the absence of men being driven mad by their struggles against nature and death, wholly absent in all parts of Happy People.

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UNUSUALY COOL
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i barely know ZOG!
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happy people is really good.
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as are the parts of the film in the op i watched.
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ok watched this, it was great. i think one of the best parts was when a fascist bro and a local journalist were talking and the conservation went something like

"watching these re-enactments, i see how you you went undetected to us journalists, because your methods are so smooth"

"really? because we didn't make much of an effort to hide the executions. i'm not calling you a liar, but i would be very surprised if you didn't know about them. it was an open secret"

funny seeing a weaselly collaborator shut down like that
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fascism : an infantilist disordör
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Makeshift_Swahili posted:

ok watched this, it was great. i think one of the best parts was when a fascist bro and a local journalist were talking and the conservation went something like

"watching these re-enactments, i see how you you went undetected to us journalists, because your methods are so smooth"

"really? because we didn't make much of an effort to hide the executions. i'm not calling you a liar, but i would be very surprised if you didn't know about them. it was an open secret"

funny seeing a weaselly collaborator shut down like that


how terrified and deferential that one film crew guy was to the death squad dudes was pretty crazy, where he's describing how they took his stepdad in the middle of the night and killed him, all the while nervously laughing throughout his telling of the story, intermittently saying "now, this isn't a criticism or anything, I'm just telling my story..."

and the way they react, man, unsure what to say at first, then the one dude just goes "we can't use every little story we find for the film, yours is too complicated"

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I liked when the high-level government bureaucrat showed up at the village massacre scene and was saying yea yea love the enthusiasms duders but um we were not monsters or doing anything wrong so if you could tone it down and make this war-cry scene a lil more Riefenstahl-esque and less barbaric then that would be great.
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zizek talks about it:




what i found amazing was how the executioner had no empathy with the ~1000 people he strangled until he played the role of the prisoner and the filmmakers told him that a prisoner about to be executed would have felt worse than him acting the scene.

it was a nice contrast him ha-cha-cha dancing when first showing the film crew his execution spot at the start, then him retching violently in the same place after he had his realisation.

interesting as well that the only thing the murderers were concerned about while revisiting a genocide their was their 'image' & depictions


from even fragments of the film its clear the indonesian people have terrible problems from having these thugs run the country for decades
http://kasamaproject.org/history/3533-65lessons-of-indonesia-1965-revolution-requires-a-peoples-army
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so is this herzog or what
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damn, they took this down, i only watched the first half
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yeah, there are torrents of it though
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Online
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it''s showing in a theater near me i think.
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afaik the torrent is an unfinished cut, version in theatres has an extra ~20 mins
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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shit, the youtube in the OP isnt workng. where can i watch this? i love Herzog, this looks like it might be his best film since The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, a real tour de force
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Makeshift_Swahili posted:

afaik the torrent is an unfinished cut, version in theatres has an extra ~20 mins


Nah the copy I torrented is the full version, 2:40 pretty sure its the directors cut which is even longer than the theatrical release.

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oh thats cool... ill have to get now too and rewatch
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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the version i got must have been the director's select cut, it's like 300 hours long, most of the cut footage was cut because it is too awesome for normal viewers to handle. i'm about a quarter of the way through it and i basically just weep and poop all day now.
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