![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly ten years in the making, The Act of Killing combines hallucinogenic musical sequences, confessional tangents and chilling testimony to examine the toll genocide takes on both its victims and its perpetrators no less than Werner Herzog and Errol Morris have hailed it as one of the most significant, original human-rights advocacy docs ever made. There are not a lot of documentarians like Joshua Oppenheimer, however, who would give Congo a forum to both reenact his crimes as if they were movie scenes and, oddly, allow the entire exercise to morph into a therapy-session-cum-treatise-on-personal-remorse. In 1965 Indonesia,, there were a lot of men like Anwar Congo-a low-level gangster who helped “purge” the country of communists as part of General Suharto’s brutal military crackdown on subversives, and who has spent the subsequent decades bragging about his violent exploits. ![]()
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