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Joko Anwar on Using Horror-Comedy to Expose Systemic Rot in
Berlin-Bound ‘Ghost in the Cell’: ‘Laughter Should Come With
Discomfort’
Rick W
/ Categories: Film Score News

Joko Anwar on Using Horror-Comedy to Expose Systemic Rot in Berlin-Bound ‘Ghost in the Cell’: ‘Laughter Should Come With Discomfort’

The ghost in Joko Anwar’s “Ghost in the Cell” doesn’t haunt – it holds accountable. Indonesian filmmaker Anwar used his Berlinale Forum entry “Ghost in the Cell” to channel societal anxieties about systemic corruption and environmental destruction through supernatural horror, creating a prison-set thriller that treats its genre elements as political instruments rather than escapist […]
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