
The Look of Silence
Documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer follows up the Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing with this companion piece that tracks the journey of a survivor of Indonesia's genocide, as he hopes to confront the men who killed his sibling.
Oppenheimer focuses on the raw experiences of survivors, noting that "making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators. But presenting survivors as saintly in order to reassure ourselves that we are good is to use survivors to deceive ourselves.
"It is an insult to survivors’ experience, and does nothing to help us understand what it means to survive atrocity, what it means to live a life shattered by mass violence, and to be silenced by terror. To navigate this minefield of clichés, we have had to explore silence itself."
- Director:
- Joshua Oppenheimer ('The Act of Killing')
- Cast:
- Adi Rukun



Reviews & comments

Variety
pressA freestanding work, its lyrical tone and measured rhythm entirely distinct from those of “The Act of Killing.”

The Telegraph
pressAnother astonishing heart-of-darkness voyage into the jungle of human nature

Hollywood Reporter
pressThe Look of Silence is perhaps even more riveting for focusing on one man’s personal search for answers as he bravely confronts his brother’s killers.

Variety
pressA freestanding work, its lyrical tone and measured rhythm entirely distinct from those of “The Act of Killing.”

The Telegraph
pressAnother astonishing heart-of-darkness voyage into the jungle of human nature

Hollywood Reporter
pressThe Look of Silence is perhaps even more riveting for focusing on one man’s personal search for answers as he bravely confronts his brother’s killers.
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