A scene from The Look of Silence. Courtesy, Drafthouse Films & Participant Media Beginning in 1965, over one million people were murdered in Indonesia. This state-sponsored genocide was justified at the time as necessary to root out the communists. What filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer uncovered in his Academy Award nominated first film on the subject, The Act of Killing, and now in his follow up film, The Look of Silence, is the dirty little secret that this was a cover story to justify a ruthless ...
The Look of Silence - a New Documentary Wants Us to Make Noise
The Huffington Post - 27 Jul 2015 23:09
A scene from The Look of Silence. Courtesy, Drafthouse Films & Participant Media Beginning in 1965, over one million people were murdered in Indonesia. This state-sponsored genocide was justified at the time as necessary to root out the communists. What filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer uncovered in his Academy Award nominated first film on the subject, The Act of Killing, and now in his follow up film, The Look of Silence, is the dirty little secret that this was a cover story to justify a ruthless ...
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