The film is considered by many to be one of the most powerful documentaries ever made, capturing unique insights from the perpetrators of the mass-killing and the families of survivors. One family discovers for the first how their son was killed. More than just looking at personal stories The Look of Silence sends a message that there can be extreme consequences to living out our everyday lives based on terror on lies.
The result, The Look of Silence, is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror – a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken. Maybe the film is a monument to silence – a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken.
