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Welcomed to Film Review on BBC News. -- welcome to the Film Review. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
We have the -- we have 'The East', which is an eager a thriller with a | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
twist. We have 'Despicable Me 2'. This | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
time there are more minions. And we have Phillip Kohlschreiber, | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
which is an extraordinary documentary about a legacy of | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
violence. -- 'The Act of Killing'. 'The East', you have me already. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
There story is, Brit Marling is an ex FBI agent who is said undercover | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
by a private security firm to infiltrate an encore of which have | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
declared war on big business. -- on clay. Inevitably, in spending time | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
with them, she starts to feel herself being sucked into that | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
lifestyle, which her boss disapproves of. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
We are not some blue-collar security firm. I didn't send you | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
out there to find their location. We spent 99% of our time pitching | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
clients we never get it. I want to avert the next attacks. We need to | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
come out looking like a leader in the intelligence community. What | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
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are we not talking about? Getting attached to them is all right, it | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
is human. We know that it happens. It is the first thing they cover in | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
training. If you spend day-in and day-out with a pack of white | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
supremacists, you would develop feelings for them as well. But do | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
not get soft. If they find out who you really are, they would give a | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
second thought your destruction. That is rather good. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
It is. What is interesting it is trying on the one hand to be a | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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mainstream thriller. Also it has great tension and plot twists. On | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
the other hand, is also dealing with interesting ideas with the | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
idea of declaring war on big business. Ellen Page is an Iraq has | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
to believes you strike back by doing the things the big companies | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
have been doing. -- an artist. It raises the issue of it somebody is | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
a terrorist or an activist. It is a very, very timely moment for this | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
film to open. The most important thing is that it is attempting to | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
be a mainstream thriller. It is attempting to play to a mainstream | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
audience. Some people felt it was perhaps too generic. I liked that | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
about it. I like the idea that you can make a movie that is thrilling | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
and exciting but is also dealing with some very serious issues. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
I liked that clip because it is intelligent and clever. It is | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Stockholm syndrome. You were captured by the people you should | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
and relate to. It is quite an interesting phenomenon. | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
The film plays with the sympathies of the audience. Is bent home with | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
these people but you start to wipe them. They are doing Tel Aviv -- | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
terrible things but you start to like them. It is a mainstream film | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
that treats its audience as intelligence. It is first and | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
foremost a work of entertainment. 'Despicable Me 2'. I watched the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
first one and thought it was pretty dull. I like animations but that | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
one didn't do it for me. I think 'Despicable Me 2' is better. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
I wasn't crazy about the first one. In the case of this, the lead | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
character is back and has decided he doesn't want to be an evil | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
person. He is raising children and he has to deal with that. He is | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
called back by the Anti-Villain League to infiltrate. The centre of | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
it is that there are more minions. These little yellow characters who | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
are basically, a cold. They are voiced by the directors. I loved | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
the entire way through the film. They realised that the secondary | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
character is part of the film. The minions of what people like. I sat | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
there and I laughed consistently. I thought it referred back to silent | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
cinema. As those leaving I had a kid say it was the best movie ever. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
It isn't, but how great to be in a position where there is all but | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
others cinema out there but I thought was really good fun. And | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
credit sequence is really funny. Believe me, as somebody is accused | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
of having a tin ear for comedy, I 'The Act of Killing' doesn't sound | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
like a lot of laughs. It is an extraordinary documentary. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
On one hand stark realism, on the other of real poetry. It was a film | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
about the Indonesian government overthrown in the 60s. Awful | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
atrocities occurred. What happens delis Joshua Hopper -- Joshua | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Oppenheimer who goes back to find out who committed these atrocities. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
He talked to them about the things they did. They are very proud of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
talking about them. As a way into understanding how they did these | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
terrible things and how these things have gone unpunished, he | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
asks them to recreate some of the things they did, to re-enact them. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
To call upon the traditions of Hollywood to stage re-enactments. | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 66 seconds | :06:32. | :07:39. | |
During these acts, some help, a It sounds extraordinary. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
It is. Extraordinary is the only word for it. Werner Herzog once | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
said it is the role of the film- maker to not flinch, to look long | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
into the abyss. This is one of those films in which it feels like | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
it does look a heart of darkness straight in the face and it | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
attempts to find a way of discussing this extraordinary | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
legacy of violence and killing. What happens from the course of it | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
is that somehow through those dramatisations, through the act of | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
filming, through the act of reconstructing, it is almost as if | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
the people involved start to see for the first time what actually | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
happened. It is not an easy watch, partly because being in the company | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
of some of the people who are depicted here is just bone-chilling. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
Also because it is a film which really asks you to confront an | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
almost unimaginable situation and it does it through incredible | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
incredibly so real situations. -- incredibly real situations. There | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
is one difficult situation with people's souls thinking people on | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the way to heaven. I came out of the screening and hardened critics | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
were stumbling out with the same expression of exhaustion, but also | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
having seen something that attempted to deal with a really | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
difficult, really serious, really profound issue in a way which was | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
and exploitative and bores and sensationalist. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Looking at these clubs, this is somebody's grandad, presumably. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
They could have kept that buried within the hearts and heads for | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
ever. Not buried. The interesting thing | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
is that at the beginning of the documentary they are talking openly | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
about these things that happened. What happens during the course of | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
the film is an attempt to move them towards some realisation that this | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
may be terrible. There is a phrase that one of them uses, he says, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
have I sinned? It is such a strange and simple phrase to use. It is an | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
extraordinary piece of work and it really demonstrates what a | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
documentary can do when it looks long and hard at a subject | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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Behind -- 'Behind the Candelabra' is really fun. | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
The DVD I haven't heard of. Bird. This is a documentary about the | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Vatican and its relationship with priests who have been abuses and | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
the legacy and the way in which the information had been kept within | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
the Vatican. It was very controversial. It was very | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
controversial when it aired some months ago. It is a film which | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
gives a voice to people who have suffered at the hands of an | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
overbearing authority. It is a very sobering watch. Interesting that | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
these week these two documentaries looking at very difficult subject | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
have both been unbelievably gripping and engaging. Documentary | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
film-making is in an extraordinary period at the moment. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Just a brief word on that. One of the interesting things, having read | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
a couple of reviews, is that there are people who are in denial | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
representing a faith which believes in repentance, confession and so on. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
That is one of the most extraordinary things. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
It is a documentary which is intelligent enough to deal exactly | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
with those issues. It is not sensationalising it. It looks | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
absolutely at the underlying theology. Denial is a very big part | :11:14. | :11:24. |