It’s hard to talk about Joshua Oppenheimer’s last
documentary, The Act of Killing. I don’t know that I’ve ever
watched another movie with such slack jawed awe. Cameras follow former
Indonesian death squad soldiers responsible for the slaughter of thousands of
people as they reenact their crimes. It’s a surreal and haunting experience,
scarring and powerful, and now it has a companion piece in Oppenheimer’s follow
up The Look of Silence. The film made the rounds at the fall
festivals last year, and now it has a trailer for you to check out if you
missed it.
