The Look of Silence

  • History
  • Documentary
7/17/2015
100

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An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

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  • Frank Ochieng

    Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer was instrumental in delivering one of the most harrowing and heart-breaking documentaries in 2013s The Act of Killing. As an impressive result of the critically acclaimed documentarians gut-wrenching narrative, The Act of Killing deservedly earned an Academy Award nomination for its unsettling truth and revelation. Killing concentrated on the frightening accounts involving the 1965 Indonesian genocide of over one million slaughtered people earmarked with communist labeling.

    Well Oppenheimer s The Act of Killing astutely offers a charged follow-up to this tremendous tragic tale with the revealing and devastatingly insightful The Look of Silence. The sentimental cynicism is pretty much as unbelievable and i...

    October 19, 2015

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