The Look of Silence (2014)
ThumbScore
👍 78%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 96%, MC: 92) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Adi Rukun as Self
M.Y. Basrun as Self
Amir Hasan as Self (archive footage)
Inong as Self
Kemat as Self
Joshua Oppenheimer as Self (voice)
Amir Siahaan as Self
Ted Yates as Self (archive footage)
Is The Look of Silence good?
Most people think so. 78% audience score, estimated from 327 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 94%.
Overview
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment. Wikipedia ↗
