Two Good Films: "The Act of Killing"/"The Look of Silence"
Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentaries -- two of the most audacious films ever made about genocide -- come to Netflix.
A regular feature for paid Watch List subscribers: I suggest one (or more) reasonably under-the-radar movies from the recent or distant past, and you do what you want with that information.
I slag on Netflix a lot, and for good reason: The streaming service that everybody has – I would say "everybody and their kids," but the company just dropped the boom on shared subscriptions – is fine for original and foreign TV series but functionally useless as a curated movie destination. Still, every now and then the roulette wheel of rights availabilities and programming windows coughs up a winner, and in this case it's two winners: "The Act of Killing" (2012, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐) and its follow-up "The Look of Silence" (2015, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), both films devilish yet dead serious inquisitions into what's involved – emotionally, administratively, spiritually – when a country takes it upon itself to murder a sizable chunk of its own population.
