"The Look of Silence" is a shocking and significant film, a further illumination of one of recent history's great horrors, a documentary that will make a difference in the world. It is also an exceptionally difficult film to actually watch.
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, "Silence" is a companion piece to his earlier, Oscar-nominated "The Act of Killing," the first film to bring into focus for Western audiences the nightmare that had overtaken Indonesia starting in 1965.
Within a year after a military coup had put Suharto in power, more than a million people the regime didn't like, including writers, intellectuals and union members, were labeled as communists and executed.