The Act of Killing

Den obekväma känslostormen är oundviklig, men på alldeles fantastiskt vis.

The disconnect between the perpetrators and their tastes makes The Act Of Killing the funniest documentary ever made about genocide—a dubious honor if there ever was one...

It is a gut-churning film: and a radical dive into history, grabbing the past in a way a conventional documentary would not.

I'm not sure even the film's powerhouse executive producers, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, have ever presented cognitive havoc so densely yet elegantly packed into one documentary.

What's most shocking, then, about The Act of Killing is just how open the perpetrators are about their past actions and how, far from being punished from these acts, they've become something like national heroes...