They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood) - #23

The Act of Killing (2012)


Nominated for Best Documentary? It's sure to win, but that's it? Is that all? Why was this masterpiece not nominated for Best Picture? Why doesn't someone create a new category: Best Film of All Time?

If ever a film could literally save the world, this is it. That's not hyperbole. I mean what I say.

I really wish my best friend, the great filmmaker Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, were still alive to watch this with me.

It is the epitome of what all documentary film, all psychodrama, all humanity should aspire to be.

So Sayeth The King of Funny Faces!

Support the Venkatesh Trust for Education and Excellence

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan
Schooley's Mountain, NJ
- Jan. 1996

Alas, poor Venkatesh!¹ I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most  xcellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it.

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¹This is (or at least was) a link to a memorial trust set up by Psychologist Vimala Veeraraghavan to advance "Education and Excellence" dedicated to her son and one of my best friends in the whole world, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan of New Delhi, India. He was a member of the West Chester University of Pennsylvana (USA) graduating class of 1997. He was my "Bhai Sahib!", my brother. He died in 2003 at the age of 27, profoundly affecting my life.