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Welcomed to Film Review on BBC News. -- welcome to the Film Review.

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We have the -- we have 'The East', which is an eager a thriller with a

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twist. We have 'Despicable Me 2'. This

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time there are more minions. And we have Phillip Kohlschreiber,

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which is an extraordinary documentary about a legacy of

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violence. -- 'The Act of Killing'. 'The East', you have me already.

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There story is, Brit Marling is an ex FBI agent who is said undercover

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by a private security firm to infiltrate an encore of which have

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declared war on big business. -- on clay. Inevitably, in spending time

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with them, she starts to feel herself being sucked into that

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lifestyle, which her boss disapproves of.

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We are not some blue-collar security firm. I didn't send you

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out there to find their location. We spent 99% of our time pitching

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clients we never get it. I want to avert the next attacks. We need to

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come out looking like a leader in the intelligence community. What

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are we not talking about? Getting attached to them is all right, it

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is human. We know that it happens. It is the first thing they cover in

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training. If you spend day-in and day-out with a pack of white

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supremacists, you would develop feelings for them as well. But do

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not get soft. If they find out who you really are, they would give a

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second thought your destruction. That is rather good.

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It is. What is interesting it is trying on the one hand to be a

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mainstream thriller. Also it has great tension and plot twists. On

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the other hand, is also dealing with interesting ideas with the

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idea of declaring war on big business. Ellen Page is an Iraq has

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to believes you strike back by doing the things the big companies

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have been doing. -- an artist. It raises the issue of it somebody is

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a terrorist or an activist. It is a very, very timely moment for this

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film to open. The most important thing is that it is attempting to

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be a mainstream thriller. It is attempting to play to a mainstream

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audience. Some people felt it was perhaps too generic. I liked that

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about it. I like the idea that you can make a movie that is thrilling

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and exciting but is also dealing with some very serious issues.

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I liked that clip because it is intelligent and clever. It is

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Stockholm syndrome. You were captured by the people you should

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and relate to. It is quite an interesting phenomenon.

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The film plays with the sympathies of the audience. Is bent home with

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these people but you start to wipe them. They are doing Tel Aviv --

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terrible things but you start to like them. It is a mainstream film

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that treats its audience as intelligence. It is first and

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foremost a work of entertainment. 'Despicable Me 2'. I watched the

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first one and thought it was pretty dull. I like animations but that

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one didn't do it for me. I think 'Despicable Me 2' is better.

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I wasn't crazy about the first one. In the case of this, the lead

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character is back and has decided he doesn't want to be an evil

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person. He is raising children and he has to deal with that. He is

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called back by the Anti-Villain League to infiltrate. The centre of

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it is that there are more minions. These little yellow characters who

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are basically, a cold. They are voiced by the directors. I loved

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the entire way through the film. They realised that the secondary

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character is part of the film. The minions of what people like. I sat

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there and I laughed consistently. I thought it referred back to silent

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cinema. As those leaving I had a kid say it was the best movie ever.

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It isn't, but how great to be in a position where there is all but

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others cinema out there but I thought was really good fun. And

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credit sequence is really funny. Believe me, as somebody is accused

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of having a tin ear for comedy, I 'The Act of Killing' doesn't sound

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like a lot of laughs. It is an extraordinary documentary.

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On one hand stark realism, on the other of real poetry. It was a film

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about the Indonesian government overthrown in the 60s. Awful

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atrocities occurred. What happens delis Joshua Hopper -- Joshua

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Oppenheimer who goes back to find out who committed these atrocities.

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He talked to them about the things they did. They are very proud of

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talking about them. As a way into understanding how they did these

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terrible things and how these things have gone unpunished, he

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asks them to recreate some of the things they did, to re-enact them.

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To call upon the traditions of Hollywood to stage re-enactments.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 66 seconds

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During these acts, some help, a It sounds extraordinary.

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It is. Extraordinary is the only word for it. Werner Herzog once

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said it is the role of the film- maker to not flinch, to look long

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into the abyss. This is one of those films in which it feels like

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it does look a heart of darkness straight in the face and it

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attempts to find a way of discussing this extraordinary

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legacy of violence and killing. What happens from the course of it

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is that somehow through those dramatisations, through the act of

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filming, through the act of reconstructing, it is almost as if

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the people involved start to see for the first time what actually

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happened. It is not an easy watch, partly because being in the company

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of some of the people who are depicted here is just bone-chilling.

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Also because it is a film which really asks you to confront an

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almost unimaginable situation and it does it through incredible

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incredibly so real situations. -- incredibly real situations. There

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is one difficult situation with people's souls thinking people on

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the way to heaven. I came out of the screening and hardened critics

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were stumbling out with the same expression of exhaustion, but also

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having seen something that attempted to deal with a really

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difficult, really serious, really profound issue in a way which was

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and exploitative and bores and sensationalist.

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Looking at these clubs, this is somebody's grandad, presumably.

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They could have kept that buried within the hearts and heads for

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ever. Not buried. The interesting thing

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is that at the beginning of the documentary they are talking openly

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about these things that happened. What happens during the course of

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the film is an attempt to move them towards some realisation that this

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may be terrible. There is a phrase that one of them uses, he says,

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have I sinned? It is such a strange and simple phrase to use. It is an

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extraordinary piece of work and it really demonstrates what a

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documentary can do when it looks long and hard at a subject

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Behind -- 'Behind the Candelabra' is really fun.

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The DVD I haven't heard of. Bird. This is a documentary about the

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Vatican and its relationship with priests who have been abuses and

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the legacy and the way in which the information had been kept within

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the Vatican. It was very controversial. It was very

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controversial when it aired some months ago. It is a film which

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gives a voice to people who have suffered at the hands of an

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overbearing authority. It is a very sobering watch. Interesting that

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these week these two documentaries looking at very difficult subject

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have both been unbelievably gripping and engaging. Documentary

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film-making is in an extraordinary period at the moment.

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Just a brief word on that. One of the interesting things, having read

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a couple of reviews, is that there are people who are in denial

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representing a faith which believes in repentance, confession and so on.

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That is one of the most extraordinary things.

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It is a documentary which is intelligent enough to deal exactly

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with those issues. It is not sensationalising it. It looks

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absolutely at the underlying theology. Denial is a very big part

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