Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
The Act Of Killing examines gigantic questions - the effect of conscience on one's health and happiness, the role and power of art in human socieities, the ways in which art and life are linked, the combinaton of allure and revulsion with which humanity responds to violence, the extent to which winners write history, how corruption in its modern and archaic senses are inextricably linked. The fact that one film tackles all of these things (and indeed offers few answers) is an incredible achievement. I can either write 20 more words about it or 2000, and indeed, 20 should suffice for now.
I suspect in a few years this will stand as one of the great documentaries of our time - I rate it 4 stars because I find it hard to rate documentaries as highly as narrative films (the lumpiness inherent to the genre sometimes makes for confused viewing).
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