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The Look of Silence

2014 · 100 min

A quiet, devastating confrontation with past atrocities, watching a man calmly face killers and their families, leaving a heavy, haunting sense of unresolved grief.

Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan

Overview: An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
justice
guilt
family
memory
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Darkness	9
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Genres: history, documentary
Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Starring: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong, Kemat, Joshua Oppenheimer, Amir Siahaan, Ted Yates
Music: Mana Tahan, Seri Banang
Cinematography: Lars Skree
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages: Indonesian, Javanese, English

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