This morning I watched The Act of Killing which is the most bizarre, horrifying documentary that I think I have ever seen. The director wanted to make a film about the 1965 massacre of communist in Indonesia but the army there wouldn't let him. He decided to interview the killers instead and let them make a film about the atrocities. It is a film within a film and not only deeply disturbing but also weirdly funny at some points. I have always been interested in why people hurt each other. It doesn't make any sense, to me, to hurt someone who isn't a threat to you. How do you turn off your empathy and humanity? The Act of Killing doesn't answer that question but it does shine a weird, surreal light on people who have done things that most of us would consider evil.
Have any of you seen it? What are some of the best documentaries that you have seen lately?
Have any of you seen it? What are some of the best documentaries that you have seen lately?
