This movie is so horrifying! I am Indonesian, and I am truly ashamed with what happened and all of these people. More than 30 years of Soeharto regime really brainwashed the nation about this. And even after the Reformation, everything was still hushed and swept under the rug like nothing. In school we were only taught, the Communist Party was banned after, but not how it was done. To this day no one recognised millions of ethnic Chinese, women activists, farmer unionists were all also falsely accused as communists and massacred. Horrible! Just horrible!
@@erikchristensen822 True! Unfortunately the monetary system of YT also prevents reactions on almost unknown films, and instead we had maybe the 500th reaction on Starwars. 😉
Im Chinese Indonesian in my early 20s our generation we dont really know the horrors our parents and grandparents went through. It was all deliberately banned from the media. But when I ask my parents about it they have long answers about how horrible life was. The bad about it is its not being recognized and apologized but the good about it is peoplr move on very fast because the new generations don't have any information or knowledge about the bad past. Today we've grown so much and really emphasize equality and loving diversity. But still it's basically the German SS if it were successful and accepted in society. Even today the government has the audacity to lie about it.
Adi is definitely the most frightening of the main guys to me, someone who truly understands power and whose only belief is "might makes right"... I remember Herman, the big guy (who wasn't born yet when the genocide happened), died not long ago and Oppenheimer said after the movie was released Herman's perspective was flipped 180⁰ and he helped with organising screenings of the film in secret in Indonesia. I highly recommend Oppenheimer's sequel The Look Of Silence which follows the perspective of a man who was born after genocide whose older brother was killed in it before they could ever meet, as he tries to find out the details from his own local members of the former death squads. If The Act Of Killing is about what this evil does to the people who take part in it, The Look Of Silence is about what it does to its victims and the people who live in such a society afterwards.
That is so rare to see an evil person open themselves up to such immense guilt. I found the most terrifying person to be the guy bragging about r4ping 14 year olds. You can literally see the evil in his eyes, especially in that village burning scene. It’s like his morals are so gone that it devolved him into something subhuman
@@myegyptiandadreacts4824 Definitely, Adi out of the main guys but out of the whole film the guy bragging about rape is the most frightening. A type of man totally governed by and driven by unfettered animalistic forces with no regard for the human world created by humans. Oppenheimer captures the dark side of nature as much as the dark side of human nature with this film.
Wonderful content, gentlemen! Love to see your take on this. Making a gangster and murderer touch upon empathy and guilt for the first time in his live by harnessing his own vanity to convince HIM to shoot the movie about his doings. Outrageous and genius.
I applaud this selection of yours. It's not easy for most to process such a film. Joshua Oppenheimer is deserving of any and all accolades. It is truly unique and heart wrenching. I have no sympathy for the perpetrators, yet we've been granted a horrifying glimpse into at least one man's confrontation with the indescribable pain which he caused. Truth is often stranger than fiction and I hope you continue to find room for more bold documentary filmmaking among your already great choice of movies.
I just wanna say respect salute to both you for comment-reaction about this documentary movie , its dark side history n bloody era in indo , once again terima kasih-thx for your reaction , sending good spirit to both you from jkrta
They shouldnt talk about this but Joshua the producer did a great job to lure them. They didnt expect this will be shown in the movie. While this is what Joshua wanted. "Fishing" them all to talk about their sins.
I'm a determinist (I don't believe in free will) and what makes this so horrific from my perspective is that any of us could be born into the wrong time and place with the wrong people influencing our understanding of the world. The scene at the end, where the old man is watching his movie with his two grandsons, and they aren't disturbed at all. Everyone around them from thier family to the larger society will tell them what a brave heroic man their grandfather is, and how necessary his killings were. Even if you have the tools to understand how wrong it is, your well being is dependent on not speaking out against it if you live there. There is a sequel to this movie called "The Look of Silence" where the same filmmaker follows a man who's brother was killed and he confronts the men who did it. Highly recommended. You guys did a great job with the reaction.
A person is indeed a product of the environment they grew up in. Which is terrifying and shows how subjective and flimsy the terms “good and evil” actually are.
I agree. It was a great reaction indeed. Thanks to the two of you. I agree The Look Of Silence is also excellent although understandably did not receive nearly the amount of attention The Act of Killing did, largely because the way the story is presented in the Act of Killing is incredibly unique (both for the format of re-enaction and the executioners' officially celebrated status within Indonesia). I hope that Oppenheimer may return to this material after he finishes his big musical he's been working on (fiction film debut), because I think a natural continuation would be to create a trilogy involving this material and in the third act, documenting and investigating the extent of participation/collaboration/looking the other way of Western intelligence agencies towards Suharto's genocide. indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/telegrams-confirm-scale-of-us-complicity-in-1965-genocide/
@@myegyptiandadreacts4824 This indirectly connects to the act of killing. The vast majority of people are not very intelligent, but you can't help how intelligent you are any more then you can help how tall you are. (You can educate yourself, but you can't make yourself intelligent or intellectually curious, those are things you just are or are not) The big reaction channels don't react to small movies or documentaries because they they want to appeal to the masses. (the masses have difficulty thinking for themselves, which is what the act of killing shows) I know I come off as an arrogant elitist who thinks he's smarter then everyone, but it's just a fact. More people watch Adam Sandler and Marvel movies then they do documentaries. This is a fact worldwide and through history. (Hell, I like Marvel movies and mindless action movies too!) As a determinist, I accept that I am exactly as intelligent/stupid as I am meant to be, just like everyone else. (So i can't judge someone who may be less intelligent, and I don't give undue respect to someone who is more intelligent) I suggest you do more reactions to popular entertainment (Game of Thrones/Marvel movies/etc) and occasionally do smaller movies like Act of Killing.
Cambodia punished their KILLING FIELD MURDERERS. .Why these people who murdered a million ...no consequences..even show pride.. something just doesnt jive.. horrifying..
This was great. in the same vein, I would love to see a reaction to some documentaries by Werner Herzog. He is a big inspiration for Joshua Oppenheimer. Grizzly Man is probably the best known.
Another great documentary is S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine. Similar to this movie it interviews former prisoners and guards of the notorious prison of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, while touring the building. They are surprisingly open about the mass torture and killing which happened there. Then there is the Fog of War. That documentary interviews Robert McNamara, the former US Secretary of War during the Vietnam War. He is very forthcoming about his mistakes, especially about Vietnam, and what he has learned over the years. It is very good insight into the thought processes behind the bad decisions of those in charge.
this movie is still banned here in indonesia, probably the easiest way to get arrested and get mobbed till ur brain matter bashed everywhere, if somebodys brave enough to play this movie in the public with large screen 😂😂😂
Here is the thing, I watched about 75% of this documentary and learned much about a country i really new nothing about. What i learned is that there are people and organized countries that live in a very corrupt society with No morals I could find or be represented in this documentary. I was actually thinking I was about to see something more like how the Khmer Rouge of cambodia killed more than 1 million people between 1975-1979. Now that was horrible for sure represented well in the movie "The Killing Fields" 1984 film. This was a representation of dispicable individuals bragging about how they killed people and a country proud of open corruption of Gangs or Gangsters as they call it to justify they horrible country of no ethics or morals. This was simply sick to watch that there are still people or a society that thinks this behavior is ok in the 21st century. I honestly do not know what you got out of this documentary except top say OMG this is a real thing that many people did not know about, come and be shocked. I can go on and on about how disturbing this was to watch, but all I can say is we all have better things to do than watch this garbage and the individuals that were in this film.
The director of this movie was indirectly confronting these people with the guilt of the horrors they committed and he has succeeded with flying colors. I highly recommend you see the last 5-10 minutes
The director of this movie was indirectly confronting these people with the guilt of the horrors they committed and he has succeeded with flying colors. I highly recommend you see the last 5-10 minutes
You say you have no patience for a film about people in a foreign country proud of their open corruption and their gangsters and individuals bragging about killing people. Yet in Michigan, there are multiple militias running around with AR-15s bragging about wanting to kidnap the governor or shoot up the anti-Trump FBI or to reclaim their country for white nationalists. There were people proudly filming themselves breaking into Congress to try to hang the vice-president. Maybe the message in the film can be applied to all countries, even the good ol’ USA.
This movie is so horrifying! I am Indonesian, and I am truly ashamed with what happened and all of these people.
More than 30 years of Soeharto regime really brainwashed the nation about this. And even after the Reformation, everything was still hushed and swept under the rug like nothing. In school we were only taught, the Communist Party was banned after, but not how it was done. To this day no one recognised millions of ethnic Chinese, women activists, farmer unionists were all also falsely accused as communists and massacred. Horrible! Just horrible!
If someone was a member of the communist party is it then okay?
Congratulations for your courage! Not many here on YT would show a reaction to this difficult documentary.
Not many here on RUclips are capable of making such an intelligent reaction to this movie.
@@erikchristensen822 True! Unfortunately the monetary system of YT also prevents reactions on almost unknown films, and instead we had maybe the 500th reaction on Starwars. 😉
Im Chinese Indonesian in my early 20s our generation we dont really know the horrors our parents and grandparents went through. It was all deliberately banned from the media. But when I ask my parents about it they have long answers about how horrible life was. The bad about it is its not being recognized and apologized but the good about it is peoplr move on very fast because the new generations don't have any information or knowledge about the bad past. Today we've grown so much and really emphasize equality and loving diversity. But still it's basically the German SS if it were successful and accepted in society. Even today the government has the audacity to lie about it.
Adi is definitely the most frightening of the main guys to me, someone who truly understands power and whose only belief is "might makes right"... I remember Herman, the big guy (who wasn't born yet when the genocide happened), died not long ago and Oppenheimer said after the movie was released Herman's perspective was flipped 180⁰ and he helped with organising screenings of the film in secret in Indonesia. I highly recommend Oppenheimer's sequel The Look Of Silence which follows the perspective of a man who was born after genocide whose older brother was killed in it before they could ever meet, as he tries to find out the details from his own local members of the former death squads. If The Act Of Killing is about what this evil does to the people who take part in it, The Look Of Silence is about what it does to its victims and the people who live in such a society afterwards.
That is so rare to see an evil person open themselves up to such immense guilt. I found the most terrifying person to be the guy bragging about r4ping 14 year olds. You can literally see the evil in his eyes, especially in that village burning scene. It’s like his morals are so gone that it devolved him into something subhuman
@@myegyptiandadreacts4824 Definitely, Adi out of the main guys but out of the whole film the guy bragging about rape is the most frightening. A type of man totally governed by and driven by unfettered animalistic forces with no regard for the human world created by humans. Oppenheimer captures the dark side of nature as much as the dark side of human nature with this film.
Wonderful content, gentlemen! Love to see your take on this.
Making a gangster and murderer touch upon empathy and guilt for the first time in his live by harnessing his own vanity to convince HIM to shoot the movie about his doings. Outrageous and genius.
You are the one person who has reacted to this thank you!
I applaud this selection of yours. It's not easy for most to process such a film. Joshua Oppenheimer is deserving of any and all accolades. It is truly unique and heart wrenching. I have no sympathy for the perpetrators, yet we've been granted a horrifying glimpse into at least one man's confrontation with the indescribable pain which he caused. Truth is often stranger than fiction and I hope you continue to find room for more bold documentary filmmaking among your already great choice of movies.
This was great. It is an amazing film and I felt like I was watching it with my family. Good job.
Wow this film is one of the best documentaries of all time glad to see some coverage
I just wanna say respect salute to both you for comment-reaction about this documentary movie , its dark side history n bloody era in indo , once again terima kasih-thx for your reaction , sending good spirit to both you from jkrta
They shouldnt talk about this but Joshua the producer did a great job to lure them. They didnt expect this will be shown in the movie. While this is what Joshua wanted. "Fishing" them all to talk about their sins.
I'm a determinist (I don't believe in free will) and what makes this so horrific from my perspective is that any of us could be born into the wrong time and place with the wrong people influencing our understanding of the world. The scene at the end, where the old man is watching his movie with his two grandsons, and they aren't disturbed at all. Everyone around them from thier family to the larger society will tell them what a brave heroic man their grandfather is, and how necessary his killings were. Even if you have the tools to understand how wrong it is, your well being is dependent on not speaking out against it if you live there.
There is a sequel to this movie called "The Look of Silence" where the same filmmaker follows a man who's brother was killed and he confronts the men who did it. Highly recommended.
You guys did a great job with the reaction.
A person is indeed a product of the environment they grew up in. Which is terrifying and shows how subjective and flimsy the terms “good and evil” actually are.
I agree. It was a great reaction indeed. Thanks to the two of you. I agree The Look Of Silence is also excellent although understandably did not receive nearly the amount of attention The Act of Killing did, largely because the way the story is presented in the Act of Killing is incredibly unique (both for the format of re-enaction and the executioners' officially celebrated status within Indonesia). I hope that Oppenheimer may return to this material after he finishes his big musical he's been working on (fiction film debut), because I think a natural continuation would be to create a trilogy involving this material and in the third act, documenting and investigating the extent of participation/collaboration/looking the other way of Western intelligence agencies towards Suharto's genocide. indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/telegrams-confirm-scale-of-us-complicity-in-1965-genocide/
We’re interested in these! We also wish the Act of Killing had more views. Shame.
@@myegyptiandadreacts4824 This indirectly connects to the act of killing. The vast majority of people are not very intelligent, but you can't help how intelligent you are any more then you can help how tall you are. (You can educate yourself, but you can't make yourself intelligent or intellectually curious, those are things you just are or are not)
The big reaction channels don't react to small movies or documentaries because they they want to appeal to the masses. (the masses have difficulty thinking for themselves, which is what the act of killing shows)
I know I come off as an arrogant elitist who thinks he's smarter then everyone, but it's just a fact. More people watch Adam Sandler and Marvel movies then they do documentaries. This is a fact worldwide and through history. (Hell, I like Marvel movies and mindless action movies too!)
As a determinist, I accept that I am exactly as intelligent/stupid as I am meant to be, just like everyone else. (So i can't judge someone who may be less intelligent, and I don't give undue respect to someone who is more intelligent)
I suggest you do more reactions to popular entertainment (Game of Thrones/Marvel movies/etc) and occasionally do smaller movies like Act of Killing.
Cambodia punished their KILLING FIELD MURDERERS. .Why these people who murdered a million ...no consequences..even show pride.. something just doesnt jive.. horrifying..
because the ones doing the killing were “communists”. Capitalists get away with genocide.
When there is no rule of law and a minority is demmonised, horrific acts wil come about. Thank you for reacting to the masterpiece.
did you watch the second part : the look of silence ?
This was great. in the same vein, I would love to see a reaction to some documentaries by Werner Herzog. He is a big inspiration for Joshua Oppenheimer. Grizzly Man is probably the best known.
watched your reaction on september 30, the day genocide started in 1965
This was a way better movie than I expected
i cant find you on audea - can you post audio versions of your videos there? would love to listen to them! thanks again for the great content!
Another great documentary is S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine. Similar to this movie it interviews former prisoners and guards of the notorious prison of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, while touring the building. They are surprisingly open about the mass torture and killing which happened there.
Then there is the Fog of War. That documentary interviews Robert McNamara, the former US Secretary of War during the Vietnam War. He is very forthcoming about his mistakes, especially about Vietnam, and what he has learned over the years. It is very good insight into the thought processes behind the bad decisions of those in charge.
That’s very intriguing. I love stuff like this. Too bad they don’t fair well as RUclips reactions :/
Great reaction
the “banality of evil”
this movie is still banned here in indonesia, probably the easiest way to get arrested and get mobbed till ur brain matter bashed everywhere, if somebodys brave enough to play this movie in the public with large screen 😂😂😂
pancasila youth represent!
Very Admirable! And you are not only smart but cute ! Are you married?
Here is the thing, I watched about 75% of this documentary and learned much about a country i really new nothing about. What i learned is that there are people and organized countries that live in a very corrupt society with No morals I could find or be represented in this documentary.
I was actually thinking I was about to see something more like how the Khmer Rouge of cambodia killed more than 1 million people between 1975-1979. Now that was horrible for sure represented well in the movie "The Killing Fields" 1984 film.
This was a representation of dispicable individuals bragging about how they killed people and a country proud of open corruption of Gangs or Gangsters as they call it to justify they horrible country of no ethics or morals. This was simply sick to watch that there are still people or a society that thinks this behavior is ok in the 21st century.
I honestly do not know what you got out of this documentary except top say OMG this is a real thing that many people did not know about, come and be shocked.
I can go on and on about how disturbing this was to watch, but all I can say is we all have better things to do than watch this garbage and the individuals that were in this film.
The director of this movie was indirectly confronting these people with the guilt of the horrors they committed and he has succeeded with flying colors. I highly recommend you see the last 5-10 minutes
The director of this movie was indirectly confronting these people with the guilt of the horrors they committed and he has succeeded with flying colors. I highly recommend you see the last 5-10 minutes
You say you have no patience for a film about people in a foreign country proud of their open corruption and their gangsters and individuals bragging about killing people. Yet in Michigan, there are multiple militias running around with AR-15s bragging about wanting to kidnap the governor or shoot up the anti-Trump FBI or to reclaim their country for white nationalists. There were people proudly filming themselves breaking into Congress to try to hang the vice-president. Maybe the message in the film can be applied to all countries, even the good ol’ USA.