The Act of Killing
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Oct 1, 2026
BenHOST
Mm.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
So the film is called The Act of Killing.
Pyrion FlaxHOST
All right?
BenHOST
Mm.
Rami YounisGUEST
me.
Arielle AngelHOST
And I also have Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence about the Indonesian genocide.
Arielle AngelHOST
Joshua, really excited to have you here.
Joshua OppenheimerGUEST
Thank you for having me.
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Arielle AngelHOST
And it's funny that both you and Rami have said something that was explicit in the film and said that maybe they didn't really say that, I think that's evidence of just how strange it is for us to hear people saying the quiet part out loud, how strange it is to hear these confessions, how unused to it we are.
Arielle AngelHOST
Joshua, you made two films.
Arielle AngelHOST
The first film, The Act of Killing, was from the perspective of the perpetrators.
Arielle AngelHOST
The second film was from the perspective of the victims of the Indonesian genocide.
Julian FeeldHOST
radicalized.
Julian FeeldHOST
So, my dear Johnny, what do you know about Indonesia? What do you know about, let's say, a book called The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins or a movie called The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer?
Jon GabrusHOST
I've seen The Act of Killing, and I really...
Jon GabrusHOST
It's hard to say I love that movie, but I did enjoy...
Jon GabrusHOST
No, actually, I loved it.
Jon GabrusHOST
eyes of a tourist.
Julian FeeldHOST
That's fair.
Julian FeeldHOST
So you are familiar a little bit with the anti-communist genocide, the anti-leftist purge that occurred in Indonesia that you saw depicted in The Act of Killing or recreated in all these
JakeHOST
One of the things that kinda gets, gets my, gets my goat, grinds my gears, is when people are like, "There's no way they killed six million in that short amount of time." And I'm like, if you look at the Indonesian genocide, which we helped do, they were killing like 10,000 people a day.
JakeHOST
If you watch that documentary, "The Act of Killing," one of the guys that was a part of it breaks it down, and he's like...
JakeHOST
He was asked how many people he thought he killed, uh, he was, like his team killed in a day, and he was like, "Oh, 1,000." And then the documentarian guy was like, "That's impossible." And he was like, "Nah, it's pretty simple if you do it like this." And then they pulled him, he brought him to a place in town that was still intact, and it was just this big balcony, and, uh-
ThomasHOST
Mm-hmm
JakeHOST
One of the things that kinda gets, gets my, gets my goat, grinds my gears, is when people are like, "There's no way they killed six million in that short amount of time." And I'm like, if you look at the Indonesian genocide, which we helped do, they were killing like 10,000 people a day.
JakeHOST
If you watch that documentary, "The Act of Killing," one of the guys that was a part of it breaks it down, and he's like...
JakeHOST
He was asked how many people he thought he killed, uh, he was, like his team killed in a day, and he was like, "Oh, 1,000." And then the documentarian guy was like, "That's impossible." And he was like, "Nah, it's pretty simple if you do it like this." And then they pulled him, he brought him to a place in town that was still intact, and it was just this big balcony.
JakeHOST
And, uh, and then-
SteveHOST
No they won't.
SteveHOST
[laughs] He also says Active Killing was great.
SteveHOST
Thanks for the suggestion.
LarsonHOST
Yeah.
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JakeHOST
yeah documentary world has been great lately for people whose names start with Oppenheim because there's also Lance Oppenheimer who made The Act of Killing The Look of Silence you guys seen these movies?
DylanHOST
no
JakeHOST
oh man The Act of Killing is probably the best documentary ever made have you seen it Seamus? no you told me it's on my list did either
DylanHOST
of you end up watching any Adam Curtis movies?
JakeHOST
i watched trauma zone fuck yeah about the soviet union it's