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The Look of Silence

  • 2014
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 43 Min.
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8,2/10
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The Look of Silence (2014)
A documentary that follows its subject, Adi, as he digs into the horror of his family's history and the loss they suffered during the Indonesian military coup of the 1960s.
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Eine Familie, die den Genozid in Indonesien überlebt hat, begegnet den Männern, die einen der Brüder umgebracht haben.Eine Familie, die den Genozid in Indonesien überlebt hat, begegnet den Männern, die einen der Brüder umgebracht haben.Eine Familie, die den Genozid in Indonesien überlebt hat, begegnet den Männern, die einen der Brüder umgebracht haben.

  • Regie
    • Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Adi Rukun
    • M.Y. Basrun
    • Volker Hanisch
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    8,2/10
    14.485
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Joshua Oppenheimer
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Adi Rukun
      • M.Y. Basrun
      • Volker Hanisch
    • 37Benutzerrezensionen
    • 189Kritische Rezensionen
    • 92Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Für 1 Oscar nominiert
      • 48 Gewinne & 45 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    The Look Of Silence: General
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    The Look Of Silence: General
    The Look Of Silence: Communists
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    The Look Of Silence: Communists
    The Look Of Silence: Fitting
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    The Look Of Silence: Fitting
    The Look Of Silence: Chopping
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    Adi Rukun
    Adi Rukun
    • Self - brother of murdered Ramli Rukun
    M.Y. Basrun
    • Self - former commander of a civilian militia
    Volker Hanisch
    • Self - Sprecher
    • (Synchronisation)
    Amir Hasan
    • Self - former leader of death squad
    • (Archivfilmmaterial)
    Inong
    Inong
    • Self - former leader the village death squad
    Kemat
    • Self - survivor from Snake River massacre
    Joshua Oppenheimer
    Joshua Oppenheimer
    • Self
    • (Synchronisation)
    • (as Josh)
    Achim Schuelke
    Achim Schuelke
    • Self - Sprecher
    • (Synchronisation)
    • (as Achim Schülke)
    Amir Siahaan
    • Self - former commander of Snake River death squads
    Ted Yates
    • Self - reporter, NBC News
    • (Archivfilmmaterial)
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      • Joshua Oppenheimer
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    Red_Identity

    Uncomfortable in its confrontations, but essential and powerful.

    A fantastic companion piece to The Act of Killing, one of the most deeply disturbing films I've ever seen. But it's not fair to call it a continuation of that film, and what this is revolved around is inherently interesting and riveting in itself. "I knew nothing about it"... the whole film can be summarized in those few words. the film is infuriating in some of the same ways The Act of Killing was, but less so by the mere fact that it's less concentrated on the individuals who committed those acts. And because it concentrates on the family of a victim, it's heartfelt in a way it's sibling film wasn't. Fantastic, thought-provoking, discomforting in the ideas and questions that it touches upon.
    9TheMovieDiorama

    The Look of Silence magnifies the immorally glorified souls of those who slaughtered millions of innocent "communists".

    "We'd drag them. Some of them screamed. 'Please, sir! Have mercy!' But we don't care. In fact, we beat him again to shut him up.". Two former death camp leaders proudly re-create the grisly scenes of the '65 purge of supposed "communists" under the instigation of the armed forces, which became widely known as the Indonesian Genocide. Documentarian Oppenheimer asks them an explicit question. "from here, can the prisoners see the blood?". "Yes, because the place was lit by torches.", they enthusiastically reply. "Because others went first. So he's given up hope. 'I'm about to die', he's thinking. 'I'd better accept it'", they describe the apparent thoughts of their victims before decapitating, mutilating and kicking their bodies into Snake River. "Feel free to take a photo!", passing a digital camera to Oppenheimer. They joyously pose atop the butchered souls of thousands, their blood stains infused with the earth they stand on. One of the killers hoists two fingers in the air, offering a peace sign, before proceeding with a thumbs up gesture.

    Oppenheimer utilised this blood-curdling footage years later, by showing its profound horror to a middle-aged Indonesian man whose brother was an unfortunate victim of the national purge. Acknowledging the explicit nature of his country's past and yearning to learn more, he singlehandedly confronts the perpetrators who executed the killings with Oppenheimer documenting the anxiety-inducing conversations, under the pretence of an eye examination. Through the changing of lenses, this metaphorical dissimulation magnifies the retinas of "Adi's" brother's executors, allowing windows into their darkened souls to widen.

    Predictably, much like with Oppenheimer's creatively profound companion piece 'The Act of Killing', these individuals expressed minimal remorse. Proud to serve their nation and glorify their political ideologies. However, the purpose of these bleak confrontations was not to agitate those that committed such atrocities, but to perpetuate a historic generational divide within Indonesia. The current generation educated with false truths to adhere to the current sociopolitical climate. "Communists gouged the eyes out of army generals", students are taught. Yet the truth couldn't be any further from that manipulative fabrication. Everyone seemingly forced into silence regarding the questioning of their own national history. Therefore, producing such an unflinching documentary that dares to question the morality and legitimacy behind one of the worst genocides in recent history, is of paramount importance. Not just to Indonesia, but every nation that endures tainted democracy. Inciting societies to educate themselves and not ignore the grave actions of their previous generation.

    Oppenheimer challenges the boundaries of documentary filmmaking once again, crafting uncompromising perceptive enlightenment through one man. A man whom represented the nullified silence of those feared by their own government. A man whom fearlessly questioned the very individuals that shaped his current standard of living. Representing the suffering and fragility of an oppressed society. Understatedly profound, yet consistently unshakeable in nature. The inclusion of iridescent quietude, from expansive shots of village life to close-ups of metamorphosis, overemphasising the extinguished freedom of speech. Many of the confrontations delivering unwavering tyrannical sensibilities likening their ideologies to totalitarian repression, exhibiting minimal sorrow for the thousands they slaughtered. Conversations that rightly bury the words under the skin to those listening. Ranging from indirect threats such as "be careful, what you're doing may be deemed as communist behaviour" to Western influences including "America taught us how to hate communists". Undoubtedly disconcerting.

    Reservations for the confrontation with "Adi's" uncle, whom was guarding "communists" before they were massacred, is the sole criticism this documentary obtains. Staged, exploitative and unnecessarily producing familial drama in a nation that is already fragmented and traumatised. Consequently Oppenheimer overstepped the line in that particular instance, despite "Adi's" insistence, creating an artificially uncomfortable atmosphere for the sake of drama.

    However, whilst not creatively innovative as his former insight into the Indonesian Genocide, Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence unequivocally nullifies all emotive output, perhaps more so that his previous directorial efforts. It is unflinching. It is uncompromising. It is of paramount significance. We need boundary-testing documentaries like this to truly provide insight and to evoke human right activism. To microscopically magnify the actions of humanity's past and ensure they never happen again. "That's politics. Politics is the process of achieving your ideals", the former commander of civilian militia joyously states with a grimace. "In many ways...".
    9michaelradny

    The Look Of Slicing

    I didn't really know much about the mass killings in Indonesia in the 1960's before watching this documentary, but something about it was so compelling and unbelievable that it practically was a mini-ww2. The Indonesian government at the time were very much like Nazi's, which is sickening, and this documentary brings light about the disgraceful ways religious propaganda can persuade people to kill.

    What I got out of this documentary was that many of the killers didn't know what a communist was, let alone think they were people. They were spun lies about the communists and many took joy in killing them. One of the most eye opening documentaries I've seen, amongst one of the most sadistic and terrible mass killings in history.
    10rblenheim

    Not just one of the most significant documentaries ever made, but a cinematic work of art

    The 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Act of Killing", garnered world-wide praise and many awards for its shocking look into the current lives of the perpetrators of genocide in Indonesia during the mid-sixties. Its filmmaker was Texas-born verified genius Joshua Oppenheimer who lives in Denmark and has been making films since 1998. "The Look of Silence" is its companion piece, and where the earlier documentary was outwardly horrifying, this one is more quietly disturbing and, I believe, the more important.

    After my viewing of it finished at 7 a.m., I was lowering myself into a warm bathtub when suddenly I became haunted by the feeling that headless bodies were floating past me as if I were in the Snake River where the corpses had been dumped. Indeed, I couldn't put the film out of my head the rest of the day, and haven't since. The film follows an Indonesian man named Adi Runkun whose brother had been brutally murdered in the 1965 purge of 'communists' as he confronts, in the present day and under the pretext of dispensing eye exams, the men who had carried out the killings (and who had boasted and joked about the carnage in "The Act of Killing"). We also see Adi's humane care-taking of his nearly dead father whom he bathes and consoles, and other family members who have had to live among his brother's murderers for decades. What makes this film so effective is how Adi refuses to display any emotion at the killers while the director continues to portray them as human beings rather than monsters (no revenge film this), but Adi's silent stare keeps burning into their souls as they squirm uncomfortably, stubbornly offering lame excuses while refusing any expressions of regret. By this method Oppenheimer makes the film much more of an iconic document of man's inhumanity to man, forcing viewers to contemplate parallels in history, most especially the Nazis who perpetrated the Holocaust in Hitler's Germany.

    There is nothing easy about this film, yet it is one of the few films you must not miss if you have a heart that pumps blood.
    infudibulum

    Words cannot describe

    Act of Killing I bought with some trepidation and settled down on my own to watch it (and watched again immediately after with the Josh/Werner Herzog background discussion - rather the film background to the discussion). Next day I bought Look of Silence. Watched it next night both without and with the background discussion. I was mesmerised (and still am), and so many questions come to mind.

    The two films work well together, Act of Killing being more overview and focusing on the killers and the political structure/mob rule that is still in power. Act of Killing doesn't particularly explore how they got away with genocide (why the world turned a blind eye), but this is alluded to carefully and specifically in Look of Silence.

    I could write so much because the two films together have provoked in me a profound perspective on human horror, which has gripped me most recently with what we see on the news with ISIS (Paris Masacre).

    What are human beings capable of, and why is an individual able to make such choices? What are the structures that facilitate the most grotesque of human acts of wickedness upon one another. Do we all contain wickedness, does a killer lurk inside us all? Does fear itself propel the killers - kill or be killed? Are we (cells in the human organism) enacting our worst imaginable terror, excising evil, I kill therefore I am?

    Josh Oppenheimer, I applaud your work. The sensitivity and attention to the finest detail employed in your work is, for me, beyond words. The cinematography, colours you choose, balance in composition. Even the subtitles were easy to read. Beautiful lingering pauses. You said of one still scene, a bridge, pale green, a river bank; you have no words to describe how this scene makes you feel, what the scene says. For me this scene (in LoS) is terrifyingly beautiful, sad, the weight of recent history hanging there in the stillness. Embodying the sadness and fear. I love that still scene.

    Superb, I do not have the words to describe what your films say to me... I will think about them for a long long time, and watch them again.

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      Adi and his family moved thousands of kilometers away to the other side of the country, out from under the shadow of the perpetrators who are still powerful situation in North Sumatra.
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      Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Tell me about that madness.

      Himself, former leader the village death squad: Some killed so many people who have gone mad. A man climbed a palm tree, every morning, to call for prayer. Killed too many people. There is only one way to avoid it. Drink the blood or go crazy. But if you drink blood, you can do anything.

      Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: [Testing the eyeglasses] What do you think...

      Himself, former leader the village death squad: Salty and sweet. The human blood.

      Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun: Pardon?

      Himself, former leader the village death squad: Human blood is salty and sweet. I know from experience.

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      Edited into P.O.V.: The Look of Silence (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Lukisan Malam
      music by E. Sambayon & lyrics by Sakti Alamsyah

      performed by Sam Saimun

      courtesy of Irama Records

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