“The Act of Killing” is one of the best documentary films I’ve seen in a while, even though it diverges quite a bit from the standard format of journalistic exploration. Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn, who co-directed the film with a third unnamed person, wanted to take a look at the brutal death squads that purged Indonesia of communists in 1965 after a failed military coup. But rather than simply interviewing the gangsters and paramilitary types of whom led the bloodletting, the filmmakers conscript them in the process of telling their stories.
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
“The Act of Killing” is one of the best documentary films I’ve seen in a while, even though it diverges quite a bit from the standard format of journalistic exploration. Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn, who co-directed the film with a third unnamed person, wanted to take a look at the brutal death squads that purged Indonesia of communists in 1965 after a failed military coup. But rather than simply interviewing the gangsters and paramilitary types of whom led the bloodletting, the filmmakers conscript them in the process of telling their stories.