The act of Killing.L'impunit\ue0 e la performativit\ue0 della memoria

By asking the perpetrators to restage their past crimes, the documentary The Act of Killing (J. Oppenheimer, 2012) deals with the trauma of the anticommunist genocide, occurred in Indonesia in 1965-66. According to Hannah Arendt's standpoints on human condition, the essay aims to analyze the film as a testimony of the detrimental effects caused by the undermined political sphere. On the one hand, the re-enactment of the traumatic experience shows the alienation of the subject from the social sphere. On the other, through the presentification of the guilt, any re-creation of the past highlights the performative nature of memory.\u200