“If we didn’t drink human blood, we’d go crazy” Just when you thought a documentary couldn’t get more harrowing than Joshua Oppenheimer‘s look at murderers in The Act of Killing, the director gives editorial power to their victims in The Look of Silence. The descriptive label “companion piece” is apt because they both exist in tandem to find the truth from every angle of the 1965 Indonesian genocide wherein all who opposed a military coup (“Communists”) were rounded up and exterminated. Rather than Oppenheimer behind the camera asking questions of…
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