You murder a man, and the moment it's done you're already retelling the story to yourself,...
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Kozlov:
[narrating his book]
You murder a man, and the moment it's done you're already retelling the story to yourself, so that the act of killing is not your act of killing, but belongs, instead, to some fictional simulacrum, in just the same way the men who murdered so prosaically in Auschwitz made peace with what they did; transmuted their memories like pieces of fiction, to the point where good and evil lost all meaning, and the only lights by which they steered were what they tasted, saw, and touched
[narrating his book]
You murder a man, and the moment it's done you're already retelling the story to yourself, so that the act of killing is not your act of killing, but belongs, instead, to some fictional simulacrum, in just the same way the men who murdered so prosaically in Auschwitz made peace with what they did; transmuted their memories like pieces of fiction, to the point where good and evil lost all meaning, and the only lights by which they steered were what they tasted, saw, and touched
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You murder a man and the moment it's done
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you're already retelling the story to yourself
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so that the act of killing is not your act of killing
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but belongs instead to some fictional simulacrum
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in just the same way the men who murdered so prosaically in Auschwitz
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made peace with what they did transmuted their memories like pieces of fiction
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to the point where good and evil lost all meaning
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and the only lights by which they steered were what they tasted saw and touched
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Movie Summary
A murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.
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Kozlov
