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Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts) Sun Jan 19, 2014, 04:25 PM Jan 2014

Everyone should watch "The Act of Killing", now on Netflix Streaming.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Act_of_Killing/70271652?trkid=13641907

It's about as unlikely a film as you'll ever see, an "bearing witness" to atrocities, but the ones bearing witness are the perpetrators, who have never seen any justice and in fact are a type of hero/celebrity in their society (Indonesia) because they are the victors in the coup/civil war.

It kind of defies description but is probably unlike anything you've ever seen.

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Everyone should watch "The Act of Killing", now on Netflix Streaming. (Original Post) Mayberry Machiavelli Jan 2014 OP

I have a copy of it but haven't watched it yet. arcane1 Jan 2014 #1

You should definitely watch it. Mayberry Machiavelli Jan 2014 #2

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. I have a copy of it but haven't watched it yet.

Reply to Mayberry Machiavelli (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2014, 04:37 PM

Jan 2014

I saw it mentioned on the Daily Show(?) and thought it looked fascinating.

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)

2. You should definitely watch it.

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 19, 2014, 04:56 PM

Jan 2014

Even after you get past the first half of the movie and figure "I get it, war criminals proudly reliving their crimes", the movie will take you places you can hardly believe.

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