''What is a nation ? Show me one.''

" I don't accept that. What is a nation ? Show me one. I don't want to be killed by an abstraction. A nation cannot make me guilty "

Kôshikei (Death by Hanging) | Nagisa Oshima | Japan | 1968

" A nation is a malignant delusion that only exists in the mind. It is a deceptive fictional concept used to control those who naturally form herds and is nothing but a basic principle to support the fabrication of those pretending to be in power "

Izo | Takashi Miike | Japan | 2004

via Mehdi Jahan