Documenting Delusion in Indonesia

Lauren RubensteinOctober 18, 20121min
In an op-ed, Jenkins writes about killings in 1965-66 being glorified as anti-communist acts of heroism

In an op-ed published in The Jakarta Post, Ronald Jenkins, professor of theater, writes about a disturbing new documentary in which “gangsters” responsible for mass murders in 1965-66 reenact their crimes as they remember them. This film, Jenkins writes, “reveals the links between the human capacity for self-delusion and cinema’s ability to reedit the past into comforting fantasy.”