One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
animinimalism:
Considering “The Act of Killing”
“People keep asking me: is it violent? Well, frankly, no, though there are some hairy reenactments. It’s actually more disturbing than that. We know how to process violence on screen; it is a familiar, if uncomfortable phenomenon. But what’s most disturbing in this film is not man’s inhumanity to man, but how far men must distance themselves from their ownhumanity in order to be inhumane. And there’s something about that that is harder to wash out of your psyche than even the most graphic violence.“
