#the act of killing

This SHOULD win the film for Best Documentary this year. This is a film that really needs to be seen to believed, as if you were you ever to end up watching it and not aware it was a documentary, you would never buy in to some of the things that take place in this film as they are just pretty much unfathomable. This film WILL stick with you, and will haunt you long after you walk out of the theater, but it is still a film that needs to be seen. When a film has you thinking about your life and feeling appreciative for even the shittiest days you have had to endure, that’s a pretty powerful thing. I am in no way done with this film as I feel compelled now to learn more about the past events it didn’t touch on, and the future ramifications that will reverberate due to the fact that this film was ever made in the first place,

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“I believe that documentary filmmaking - and I’m one of the great advocates - has to move away from the pure, fact-based movies, because facts, per se, do not constitute truth. Otherwise the Manhattan phone directory would be the book of books; four million entries, every single one factually correct. Mr. Jonathan Smith - his address and telephone number can be verified correct. But whether he has nightmares or whether he cries into his pillow each night, we do not know. And that’s where filmmaking has to move.” - Werner Herzog

‘Werner Herzog and Errol Morris talk about “The Act of Killing"’