The AUC was known for disemboweling and decapitating their victims in front of their families and burning villages to the ground to "send a message" to anyone thinking of cooperating with its Marxist enemies.
[2]1:46:43 Smaker survived the kidnapping "pretty unscathed", but left her shaken by "how normal these people were" (some of them teenage girls), and their ability to go from disemboweling human beings "to talking about makeup and their favorite football team".
[1] According to The New York Times, "film critics warned that conservatives might bridle" at the sympathetic portrayals of the inmates "but reviews after the festival's screening were strong".
According to one Arab documentarian, Assia Boundaoui, "to see my language and the homelands of folks in my community used as backdrops for white savior tendencies is nauseating".
Prominent festivals rescinded invitations, and critics in the documentary world took to social media and pressured investors, advisers and even her friends to withdraw names from the credits.