First off, I'm conscious that writing in a fanlike way about a film that documents the aftermath of an atrocity is incongruous to say the least. But it is an amazing, horrific film. Writing about a film like this, one is often tempted to just narrate the footage but I don't want to spoilerise it for anyone ("Hey! No spoilers for the mass mudrder documentary!")I didn't know a lot about it before I went in, or the situation in Indonesia, so I think being "raw" it hit me pretty hard and confused me. I had real problems working out what was going on, and if what I was seeing was actually real or staged. My confusion was added to by lack of voiceover, or directorial comment. It felt like a confusion of realities - the interviews with the killers themselves and their narrative, the documentation of the current paramilitaries in Indonesia, lots of very artful, funny, everyday footage and the utterly strange filmic recreations scripted and staged by the killers. These often tripped over from the comic to the terrifying in the space of a few frames - one scene in particular felt to me like a powerful evocation of Kali. I read a review yesterday that said "it left me dumbfounded" and yep, that's pretty much how I felt.