THE ACT OF KILLING

THE ACT OF KILLING, 2012

Denmark, Norway | 159’

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

“The Act of Killing” tells the story of how the small cinema gang comprising of Anwar and his friends who sell black market cinema tickets in Indonesia later turn into a far-right paramilitary organisation responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Throughout the film Anwar and his friends tell about the massacres they committed as if they were ordinary. They recreate those moments with all their strangeness and as if they were acting scenes from their favourite old American films. “The Act of Killing” presents a distressing cinematic experience during which we gain an insight into the minds of murderers, offenders and people who commit crimes against humanity. It is also a nightmare in which wickedness is presented to us with all its mundaneness and nakedness.