The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.
Joshua OppenheimerIn Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "prรฉman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.
Joshua OppenheimerAfter the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.
Joshua Oppenheimer