Let me be clear about this: each movie in the Best Documentary Feature category deserves the nod. I should also disclose that I am firmly in Jehane Noujaim’s corner. I don’t know how she manages to get as close as she does to her subjects, nor how she keeps dodging death, but it’s a testament to her fervor and fearlessness.
The only way I could pick a winner was to narrow it down to the most unique experience of the five. In that respect, “The Act of Killing” is distinct not because of its premise, but because of the exercise it gives itself.
La única forma que podría elegir un ganador es reducirlo a la experiencia más única de los cinco. A este respecto, "The Act of Killing" es distinta no por su premisa, sino por el ejercicio que se da a si mismo.
La única manera elegir un ganador era por medio de determinar cuál de las cinco ofrecía la experiencia más única. En este sentido, "The Act of Killing" es distinto, no por su premisa, sino por el ejercicio que se da.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer asks Anwar Congo, a major player in the Indonesian paramilitary Pancasila Youth, to help him film re-enactments of the killings that occurred during the organization’s anti-communist purge of 1965-66. Congo brags about having tortured and killed over 1,000 during the purge. He’s keen to relate the war crimes to a wider public, even hoping the whole thing will look like the old gangster movies that influenced the style and manner of his murders.
El está dispuesto a relacionar crímenes de guerra a un publico más amplio, incluso esperando que todo parezca como una antigua película de gangster que influencio su estilo y manera de asesinar.