Natural born killers
Two films at this year's Southeast Asian Film Festival feature men involved in state-sanctioned killings - and how they live out the rest of their lives in the shadow of the carnage.
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Dylan Tan
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CAN a man live with himself knowing he got away with murder? That's the question that hangs over two must-see films that have made the line-up of this year's Southeast Asian Film Festival (SEAFF).
In The Look of Silence, a mild-mannered village optometrist comes face-to-face with his brother's killers - sounds like the plot of a cold-blooded thriller written by the Coen brothers? Not quite. Instead, it's the compelling (and equally-excellent) companion piece to the stunning 2012 award-winning documentary The Act of Killing by director, Joshua Oppenheimer.
Both films are framed against the same backdrop after the 1965 Suharto coup, which saw Indonesian civilian militia senselessly slaughtering millions of people who were suspected to be communists.
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