Glazer's final scene, Höss retching as he walks down a stairway, is drawn from the ending of Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, where Anwar Congo retches on the rooftop where he killed.
Film· 2012· Documentary
Jagal (The Act of Killing)
by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Jagal (The Act of Killing): 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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- The Indonesian Mass Killings (1965)
The perpetrators are still free, and that fact is the film's method. Between 1965 and 1966 at least half a million people were killed in Indonesia as suspected communists, and the killers were never prosecuted; several became public figures. Joshua Oppenheimer found that survivors could not speak safely and that the killers would speak freely and proudly. So he asked them to restage their own killings in the film genres they loved, gangster pictures and musicals, and filmed them doing it. The form comes directly from the political situation: in a country where the killings are officially a heroic act, a conventional documentary was not possible, and the reenactments end by doing to one of the men what no interview could.