This is a very objective and intelligent film about the Indonesian invasion of East Timor AND five Australian journalists efforts to try and tell the story. It is beautifully filmed and bravo to the amateur local actors used in the film.
No answers are given why foreign help was not forthcoming and why Indonesia invaded at all.
Balibo is a place in East Timor where terrible tortures of locals happened and where the five journalists went in search of the story.
this is a war film in the cast of Tunnels Rats and Killing Fields, produced on a budget quite clearly. I live in Indonesia and I found it enlightening if not completely informative.
the film needed to be careful not to focus on the ultimate death of the journalists balanced against the death of the many local timorese.
Nothing bad about this film, though those in the know yes will criticise the technical issues of the film such as wrong guns etc but remember again budget movie!
No answers are given why foreign help was not forthcoming and why Indonesia invaded at all.
Balibo is a place in East Timor where terrible tortures of locals happened and where the five journalists went in search of the story.
this is a war film in the cast of Tunnels Rats and Killing Fields, produced on a budget quite clearly. I live in Indonesia and I found it enlightening if not completely informative.
the film needed to be careful not to focus on the ultimate death of the journalists balanced against the death of the many local timorese.
Nothing bad about this film, though those in the know yes will criticise the technical issues of the film such as wrong guns etc but remember again budget movie!