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