‘The Realness’ Episode 6: ‘The Act of Killing’

Episode #6 – The Act of Killing: Libsyn Player

This week we discuss Joshua Oppenheimer‘s The Act of Killing, now in theaters. It follows a group of gangsters in Indonesia, who were responsible for many of the killings in the anti-Communist purge of 1965–1966. Oppenheimer has given them the opportunity to make a film re-enacting the violence, a device whi…