Drafthouse Films has
released the trailer for director Joshua Oppenheimer's companion film to his
stunning 2013 documentary, The Act of Killing.
Titled The Look of
Silence, the documentary follows an optometrist who confronts his brother
killers from the Indonesian genocide that killed millions accused of being communists.
Oppenheimer's
approach tends to be unique, highly emotional, subtle, and at the same time
blunt. It's like watching a psychology experiment unraveling before our eyes,
and The Look of Silence seems to follow those guidelines, as victim confronts the
various perpetrators of his brother murder while testing their eyesight.
The Look of Silence
opens this summer.
The Look of Silence
is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The
Act Of Killing. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965
Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was
murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on
the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the
suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a
society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed
his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept
responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness
to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
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