Review of The Act of Killing (2012) by Anthony Lane for New Yorker — 17 Jul 2013
The project gave me pause. Although Oppenheimer has called it “a documentary of the imagination,” whatever that means, would a measure of investigation have spoiled it? We hear that Congo personally exterminated a thousand people.
Does that figure stand up, and does it not matter more than his dawning remorse? There is no disputing that we are right at the heart of darkness, but around it is a larger body of evidence, which awaits another explorer.
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This review of The Act of Killing (2012) was written by Anthony Lane and published by New Yorker on 17 Jul 2013.
The Act of Killing has generally received very positive reviews.
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