In his acclaimed 2012 film The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer focused on the perpetrators of genocide in 1960s Indonesia to expose a society in which murderers still hold power and rule with impunity. In this arresting companion piece, Oppenheimer shifts his attention to the victims of these murders and follows Adi, a gentle village optometrist whose older brother was brutally killed during the massacre fifty years ago. Adi is unwilling to bury the past, and he does the unthinkable in a society silenced by fear: he confronts the perpetrators directly. As he conducts eye exams on the men who murdered his brother and countless others, he asks hard and patient questions about their involvement in genocide—what they did, what they think of their actions, how they live with themselves. The responses to his queries range from dismissal to excuses to furious threats, showing a willfully myopic vision of the past that the brave eye doctor seeks to diagnose and cure.  EM