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In an idea spearheaded by director Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing is a documentary that challenges a few former Indonesian death squad leaders, who are referred to in this film as executioners, but refer to themselves as gangsters and embrace their roles as cold blooded murderers, to re-enact a few of their real-life mass-killings, using whichever cinematic (Hollywood) genre they wish.

When the first Indonesian president was overthrown in 1965, groups of thugs where recruited to initiate an anti-communist purge, now referred to as the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966, where anyone suspected of being a communist was brutally killed, raped or severely extorted.

During the course of this documentary, we look on as Oppenheimer gathers interviews from a few of these renowned former death squad leaders, as they boastfully speak of the creativity behind the different types of mass executions theyve conducted and their excitement about re-creating said executions for the big screen.

The most notable of these former executioners is a man called Anwar Congo, who also happens to be the founder of a paramilitary and violently anti-communist organization called Pamuda Pancasila; an organization that is openly backed by the Indonesian government.

But Anwar is not the most polarizing subject of this film simply because he himself claims to be responsible for personally killing over a thousand people, but more so because he seems to be the only executioner Oppenheimer speaks with, who shows any ounce of regret at all.

Obviously bothered by his part in an infamous genocide, and claiming, in his old age, to be suffering from nightmares and hauntings brought on by the souls of the deceased, he seems to agree to partake in this social experiment for different reasons than the rest.

While fascinated by the opportunity to dress up as an old fashioned movie gangster (as he claims to be a huge fan of old Hollywood cinema) after a while you get the sense that Anwar is really seeking some kind of morbid closure for the atrocities that he perpetrated and that nobody else around him seemed to recognize or even fully understand.

The genre re-enactments, as clever as they sound on paper, dont really work as well as you might think.

That is to say, the fact that one brutal re-enactment is constructed to resemble an old fashioned Hollywood gangster movie and the next as a musical and the next as a western, doesnt really add much to this film.

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