Film

The Act of Killing

Name: The Act of Killing
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2012
Cast: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno

A documentary that hands the camera to Indonesian death-squad leaders and lets them direct their own crimes as movies — musicals, gangster flicks, westerns. What unfolds is grotesque, surreal, and unbearably intimate: men laughing through massacre reenactments until, occasionally, something cracks. It isn't built to explain history so much as to sit inside the psychology of impunity. For those who want moral vertigo, not closure.

TMDb rating

7.7

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