While The Look of Silence is a more intimate and conceptually straightforward documentary than The Act of Killing, it nonetheless affixes the need for truth and reconciliation onto Indonesia's official intransigence.

Every scene weighs on the audience. But Oppenheimer and Adi manage to locate a lightness as well that lessens the burden.

Oppenheimer's follow-up, The Look of Silence, is more lucid but less interesting.

It is a film that all human beings should be required to watch, if only to learn an invaluable lesson in empathy and what the world might look like without it.