The Act of Killing Movie Review
The Act Of Killing Drafthouse Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on RottenTomatoes.com Grade: A- Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Screenwriter: Joshua Oppenheimer Cast: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, the people of Medan, Indonesia Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 6/25/13 Opens: July 19, 2013 One of the sophomoric questions that teachers ask, well, of students in their second year of media studies, is: “Do movies create violence?” There is no conclusive answer to this, which makes the query one that evokes a plethora of classroom discussions. Let’s turn the question on its head: “Does violence create movies?” Yes, of course, pictures of war and crime in the real world do motivate the production of films to mirror this, but in [ Read More ]
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- 6/26/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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