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Review by HALfie

Rating: 
4.5

What’s more fascinating?

The triviality of the evil or the “mise en scene” of the disturbing truth? Or both of them?

The concept behind this docu-film is simply absurd but perfectly working: “please can you reenact atrocities you have committed”?

“The Act of  Killing” is a rare example of daring surrealism and grotesque humor that let the viewer shocked or simply skeptical, despite the softening the emotive impact by using  poetic images don't make it less painful.

 

“War crimes are dictated by the winners"   

"Did the people I tortured feel the way I do here? " A. Congo

 

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
To Have and Have Not, 1944