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The Look of Silence (2014) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: The Look of Silence (2014)

Roberto Montiel
Movie Reviews
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October 7, 2015

Looking is different than seeing in the same way in which seeing is different than watching. Looking necessarily entails as much the eyes of the one who looks as the eyes of the one who’s been looked at. A look is impossible without reciprocity, for no look can be given if no look can be…

The Act of Killing (2012) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: The Act of Killing (2012)

Roberto Montiel
Movie Reviews
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June 24, 2015

How hard it is to look at pure evil right in the eye? It is hard, very hard, mainly because, as Hannah Arendt very lucidly said, it is extremely banal. No apocalyptic Lucifer-like layouts, no tall teleologies or immense intentions; the people who do evil are brutally banal, practically plain — and they are of…

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