""Is it possible to kill 1 million people and then forget about it? Or if it has been erased from consciousness, is there an unconscious residue, a stain that remains? Josh Oppenheimer's film The Act of Killing is an examination of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66, in which between 500,000 and 1 million people died. The Act of Killing is truly unlike any other documentary film. He identified several of the killers from 1965 and convinced them to make a movie about the killings. But the film is even weirder than that. Oppenheimer convinced these killers to act in a movie about the making of a movie about the killings...Oppenheimer had said that the killings were facilitated by the USA State Department and the CIA. Was this true?"" Mass killings in Indonesia
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