During 1965-1966 there was a state
sponsored purge of communists in Indonesia. The killing of six
Army generals started the bloodshed. The people hated the communists for many reasons and they killed as many of
them as they could. Half a million people
were killed and some were
taken out of prisons and killed. Adi
decides to talk to the men who are still alive that participated in the
killings. Adi’s older brother Ramli was murdered during this time. Many family members of those killed
have lived in fear and silence. Adi
wants to find out the truth try to remove the fear.
The biggest truth that
Adi learned is that none of the men involved in the killings feel any remorse
for what they did? They talk freely about their crimes and about killing Ramli. Many of their
family members didn’t know what they did?
Now these men are treated as heroes instead of murderers? Adi wonders how he can raise his son
and daughter in a society with the survivors terrorized into silence about the murders. Adi and his family moved to the other
side of the country to get away from the shadow of the perpetrators. There still could be danger because many of the men are still in positions of
power in the community. Many times this is difficult to watch. 3* (This movie is OK)
Note: Imdb 8.3 out of 10, 96% critic 90%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 43 reviews, Metacritic 92 out of 100 with 29 critics 8.4 out of 10 with 74 critics, 5* out of 5* review by Peter Bradshaw.
103
min, Doc directed by Joshua Oppenheimer with Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir
Hasan, Inong, Kemat, Amir Siahaan, Ted Yates.
Special
Note: Filmed in Indonesia. Joshua Oppenheimer also directed The
Act of Killing of 2012 and Silence is a continuation. On the DVD cover and in the film Adi uses different lenses to test people for their prescriptions for glasses.
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