Hopes of Reconciliation
Joshua Oppenheimer*
When The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence were released, I had high hopes that these two films would be useful for the reconciliation process in Indonesia. With The Act of Killing, I wanted to invite the audience to see a history that is different from what we read in the school textbooks. With The Act of Killing, I wanted us to deconstruct the New Order's black propaganda that justified the mass killings in 1965 and even celebrated them as being heroic.
October 6, 2015
Joshua Oppenheimer*
When The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence were released, I had high hopes that these two films would be useful for the reconciliation process in Indonesia. With The Act of Killing, I wanted to invite the audience to see a history that is different from what we read in the school textbooks. With The Act of Killing, I wanted us to deconstruct the New Order's black propaganda that justified the mass killings in 1965 and even
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