To call this a ‘companion piece’ to The Act of Killing is to undersell it a little, but it does follow on from that film and builds on the themes of the first - namely the brutal killing of around a million people in mid-1960s Indonesia, and the reluctance of anyone involved to talk about it.
I think we might as well just watch all three of these now.
It’s been a good while since I saw this, but it holds up in spite of Mickey Rooney.
They are making a new one of these, and the trailer looks good, so I thought it’d be fun to go back and watch the old ones again.
A career-driven, hedonistic single mother (Billie Piper) falls for a charming but angry and quite hateful traditionalist man (Leo Bill).
