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The Look of Silence Is Just As Beautiful As The Act of Killing—and Just As Disturbing
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing—one of the darkest, toughest-to-watch, and most brilliant films I’ve seen in the past decade—wasn’t exactly a documentary, though it was nominated for a 2014 Oscar in that category. The Act of Killing told a true story, a terrible one, about a period of state-sanctioned genocide in Indonesia in the mid-1960s. But Oppenheimer chose to tell that story from the point of view of the atrocities’ perpetrators.
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"The Look of Silence" - Official Trailer (HD) - 2014
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