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1. www.nytimes.com › 2013/07/14 › moviesA Movie’s Killers Are All Too Real - The New York Times

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   Jul 12, 2013 · July 12, 2013. Early in “ The Act of Killing,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s startling new documentary about mass murder and impunity in Indonesia, a death squad leader named Anwar Congo, dapper in ...

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2013/07/19 › movies‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres - The New ...

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   Jul 18, 2013 · Herman, a stout, excitable man who runs for Parliament on a more or less overt platform of bribery and extortion, likes to wear dresses that evoke Mae West by way of Divine. A scene from the ...

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3. www.nytimes.com › reviews › moviesMovie Reviews - The New York Times

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   2 days ago · Crime, Drama, Musical, Thriller. Directed by Todd Phillips. Todd Phillips’s “Joker” sequel stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga who sing and dance like crazy kids, but the movie is seriously ...

4. www.slantmagazine.com › film › the-act-of-killingReview: The Act of Killing - Slant Magazine

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   Mar 16, 2013 · March 16, 2013. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning—and in more ways than one. While the director travels to Indonesia to interview several of the individuals responsible for the mass murders of suspected communists following the country’s military coup in 1965 ...

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5. editorial.rottentomatoes.com › article › interviewInterview: Oscar-nominated Act of Killing Director on the ...

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   Jan 17, 2014 · One of 2013’s most discussed and lauded films, Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing takes a by-turns chilling, humorous, and insightful tour in the company of Indonesia’s infamous death squad leaders — the men behind a series of 1965 massacres that were among the worst in history — as they gleefully recreate their ...

6. www.carnegiecouncil.org › media › seriesEthics on Film: Discussion of "The Act of Killing"

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   Aug 26, 2013 · The Act of Killing brings us into these people's neighborhoods, homes, and minds. It forces us all to understand that when the act of murder is taken lightly, it is immeasurably easier for things like the Holocaust, the Indonesian killings of 1965-66, the Rwanda genocide, chemical attacks in Syria, or even the Sandy Hook massacre to take place.

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   Is 'The Act of Killing' a good film?

   • Films about historical atrocities, whether documentaries or not, often focus on the perspectives of victims, survivors, or resisters. A. O. Scott's review of "The Act of Killing" notes that the dead usually cry out for commemoration, and the living need to be provided with consoling stories of courage and resilience.

   ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres - The New York Times

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   What happened in the Act of killing?

   • And this method was a way of answering those questions.” The events initially addressed in “The Act of Killing” are little known in the West: the slaughter of as many as a million people in Indonesia following the military’s seizure of power there in 1965.

   ‘The Act of Killing’ and Indonesian Death Squads - The New York Times

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   What is the content of 'The Act of Killing'?

   • “The Act of Killing” is about those who massacred as many as 2.5 million Indonesians in the 1960s, and it takes viewers inside their minds and motives.

   ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres - The New York Times

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   Is 'the Act of killing' a horror movie?

   • The horror genre is not the primary focus of ‘The Act of Killing’. However, the queasiness that may linger from watching this film might lead some to categorize it as a horror movie. Some queasiness may linger at the thought of a Western filmmaker indulging the creative whims of mass murderers, exploiting both their guilelessness and the suffering of Indonesians who remain voiceless and invisible here.

   ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres - The New York Times

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   What is the most startling thing about the killers in 'the Act of killing'?

   • Perhaps the most striking feature about the killers in ‘The Act of Killing’ is that they seem to have no interest in denying, excusing or minimizing their crimes. On the contrary, they are candid and even boastful about what they have done, and eager to share their recollections of torture and murder.

   ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres - The New York Times

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8. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-act-of-killing-2013The Act of Killing movie review (2013) - Roger Ebert

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   Jul 19, 2013 · "The Act of Killing" introduces us to several Indonesian mass murderers who jump at the chance offered by this documentary's maker, Joshua Oppenheimer, to make their own movie, a chronicle of their years carrying out an anti-Communist purge that claimed over a million lives in 1965-66. This seemingly odd compulsion to confess becomes the film's (and the film-within-the-film's) grandest special ...