PUBLIC MARKS with tags documentaire & polémique

How did we forget the mass killings in Indonesia? And what might they have taught us about Vietnam?

Don't give an Oscar to this snuff movie It has won over critics but this tasteless film teaches us nothing and merely indulges the unrepentant butchers of Indonesia

For much of the past decade, one constant gripe within the world of documentary has been a need for more writing and better criticism about the craft of the filmmaking (as opposed to summaries of the plot or lionizations of the subject). So why have two recent, very critical op-ed pieces about The Act of Killing drawn such heat? The answer lies in both the source of the criticism and the method.