I just finished watching one of the most powerful films I've seen in years!

The Act of Killing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/combined

It revolves around old Indonesian gangsters reliving, and reenacting, their brutal mass killings they partook in during the mid 1960s. It's also a very dark and scary commentary on modern Indonesian politics and government. One of the most powerful and hard to watch documentaries I've ever watched. HIGHLY recommended, but be warned this is NOT and easy film to watch! Having said that it's ironically a very deeply, darkly, humorous film too. This will stay in my mind for a long time!

For someone who loves South East Asia and who lived there a year as a child this was a particularly interesting and difficult film to watch. I lived in Malaysia, right next door to Indonesia, the culture and flavour of the place comes right back to me when I watch much of this film. Malaysia too has it's issues and dark history, this film made me feel quite conflicted, since as I said I love that part of the world.

If you are wondering about my camping trip I'm going to be posting about that later.