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In response to
"But that's what I'm saying. You watch The Act of Killing, and you're like "no, no distance fixes this you a-holes." -- nm"
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Max
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I'm not so sure. I haven't seen the movie, but about 4 months ago I was reading "In The Time of Madness" by Richard Lloyd Parry (horribl stuff inside)
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Jan 13 '14, 18:32
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which is about various mass murders that took place in Indonesia in the 1990s - the killings that happened in Borneo and Sulawesi and later the murders in East Timor that happened when that country broke away from Indonesia and became independent.
Two years ago I was actually in Cambodia, visiting one of the Killing Fields. They had a monument crammed with various bones of the people killed at that site - one of many in the country. There was a path I walked around, and the signposts along the route were things like "they smashed children's heads against this tree", or "they buried all the clothes of the dead here, and scraps of clothing come to the surface", and there are rags half-sticking out of the ground.
I don't think I'll ever find jokes making light of mass murder (or slavery) funny. But I found the slavery joke funny and poignant - though in a very dark "some people do think it wasn't that bad" way, and also in a "once I didn't think it was that bad, because I didn't really understand it" way.
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