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Trailer for "The Act of Killing"

submitted by Yogi

1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago

This is a film that I haven't seen yet but it's at the Seattle Film Festival. It's about the Genocide in East Timor. It's also more fundamentally about humanity, and what it means to kill.

I know some people say why does this matter, it happened awhile ago, in a place far far away. It matters, because the United States supported it with weapons. The weapons we provided were used to kill hundreds of thousands of landless peasants.

"I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade...it is unprecedented in the history of cinema." -Werner Herzog (who also helped complete the film)

http://drafthousefilms.com/film/the-act-of-killing

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, May 25th, 2013 3:21pm PDT - promote requested by enoch.

Moving this video to Yogi's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Yogi, the movie is not about the genocide in East Timor but rather the mass murder of communists and others in the mid 60s. Indonesia is a big fan of genocides so it's easy to mix them up.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by rasch187.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by rasch187.

This film came to the San Francisco Film Festival as well, and I've a friend who saw it. Looks compelling.

bcglorf says...

upvote as important. Also current because one of Al Qaeda's top listed reasons for hating America is it's policy on East Timor...

Al Qaeda was angry that America reversed it's stance from supporting this genocide and instead supporting a free and independent East Timor...

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