Moreover, because the victims were smeared as Communists, and this was the height of the Cold War, many Western nations applauded the genocide. That's what effectively happened in Indonesia under the Suharto regime. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, "but it's not some surreal science-fiction scenario," said Oppenheimer.
That's the plot of speculative literature like Philip K. Oppenheimer gives a simple context: Imagine if the Nazis had won World War II. Oppenheimer explained, "The perpetrators are still in power, and people's lives are still being destroyed by unresolved fear." Five decades later, Rukun dwells helpless in the shadow of this unfathomable and unpunished crime. He is Rukun, the father of Ramli, one of that endless mass butchered by men like Congo.
The naked man is featured in Oppenheimer's follow-up, The Look of Silence. He is Anwar Congo, a former member of Indonesia's death squads responsible for millions of murders in the Sixties under the blood-soaked regime of General Suharto. The dreaming man is from Joshua Oppenheimer's revolutionary 2013 documentary The Act of Killing. The other is naked, terrified, crawling through his home in senile confusion. The first is asleep in bed, plagued by nightmares.
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