Over-Policing, Shaming, and Figuring Out When to Laugh

An Essay

In my freshman year of college I took a class in which we watched films, typically about a tense political time in history or a genocide, and discussed them. We also had to write response papers based on our findings. For one particular class, we watched The Act of Killing (2012) which follows the perpetrators of the Indonesian Mass Killings of 1865-196…