The audacity of Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn’s documentary The Act Of Killing is evident right from the opening scene, which has colorfully clad dancers and actors emerging from the mouth of a giant fish sculpture to cavort beneath a waterfall, with the sunlight glimmering off their finery. It’s a beautiful, funny tableau, given a layer of meta by the offscreen presence of someone barking orders at the performers, yelling at them to be more natural and happy, and less “fake.” All in all, not a standard way to kick off a movie about genocide... -Noel Murray
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