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Excuse me, but I’m going to be blunt for just a moment: The Act of Killing was robbed of the Best Documentary Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. The documentary detailed the 1965-66 Indonesian killings that led to more than 500,000 murders and the rise of the right-wing organization, Pemuda Pancasila, but also had those same killers re-enact their murders in surreal, fantasy-like scenes that mimicked various film genres.
For his follow-up, The Look of Silence, Oppenheimer and his crew re-visit the Indonesian killings, but focus on the victims and their stories, focusing on one in which a victim’s family discovers his killers live down the street and their confrontation with them. The Look of Silence is being treated as both a follow-up and companion piece to The Act of Killing, but as this first trailer indicates, it’ll work just as well (if not better) on its own like The Act of Killing.
The Look of Silence won’t be out until next year, so until then, enjoy this trailer, and if you haven’t yet, do yourselves a favor and watch The Act of Killing.