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Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material involving disturbing graphic descriptions of atrocities and inhumanity
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Language: Indonesian, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 103
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Date: 07/17/2015
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The Look of Silence (2015)
Views of Killing
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Joshua Oppenheimer's follow-up, or companion piece, to his extraordinary The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence feels slightly smaller-scale, which is not necessarily a bad thing in this case. It follows an Indonesian man, an optician, who interviews various individuals who were purportedly involved with the killings of so-called communists in the 1960s. The man's brother was killed during that time, and he proves to be an assertive, canny interviewer; one subject angrily says that he's even pushier than "Josh." Oppenheimer includes several asides, visits with the interviewer's century-old parents, and other striking images that allow time for the atrocities, and the human memory, to sink in. The Act of Killing was nominated for an Oscar, but did not win, and this one could make up for it.
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