joshua oppenheimer discusses the look of silence and finding movie magic in real life horror /

Director Joshua Oppenheimer received international acclaim a few years ago for The Act of Killing,a groundbreaking documentary approximately the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66. Rather than deliver a straightforward history lesson, Oppenheimer introduced viewers to several perpetrators of the genocide, and who not only described the atrocities they committed,but even dramatized some of them onscreen.…

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