The Act of Killing....

[svizzerams]

Anyone see it yet?

The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

[nowonmai]

The banality of evil is now such an embedded concept that the shocking truth would be that some of these killers are quite interesting.

[coldharvest]

some of these killers are quite interesting.

They always have been

[vagabond]

svizz - Yes, well worth checking out.

Other than the documentary that actually won an Oscar ("20 Feet from Stardom"), the other nominated ones are on Netflix if you have access (and piracy if you don't).