British - Director | September 23, 1974 -
We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
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Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.
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'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
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I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.
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I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.
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