Winners and Losers: a review of Josh Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’

Winners and Losers: a review of Josh Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’

By Mik Frances Initially, PS’s screening of Josh Oppenheimer’s THE ACT OF KILLING (2012) piqued my interest primarily because of intersections in the film’s setting– Indonesia– and PS’s project English For Working Voices. The project consists of free ESL classes taught in a Freirean style (as is all poli-ed at PS) about immigration, work, and labor organizing. In its initial semesters we partnered with an Indonesian church right in my backyard o…