Synopsis:
The Brook Lapping/Electric Pictures drama-documentary 'Bom Bali' is one of the most ambitious films yet made about a modern terror attack. Featuring intense testimonies from perpetrators, victims and rescuers alike, the film sets out to recreate but also understand both the immediate and lasting effects of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. The film also attempts to deal with the most sensitive questions of grief and forgiveness. In one memorable scene a leader of Bali's Islamic community comforts the daughter of a victim of the blast, itself an eloquent testimony to the fact that the bombers' principal aim (to build what they called "a ravine of hate" between communities) was unfulfilled.
Synopsis:
The Brook Lapping/Electric Pictures drama-documentary 'Bom Bali' is one of the most ambitious films yet made about a modern terror attack. Featuring intense testimonies from perpetrators, victims and rescuers alike, the film sets out to recreate but also understand both the immediate and lasting effects of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. The film also attempts to deal with the most sensitive questions of grief and forgiveness. In one memorable scene a leader of Bali's Islamic community comforts the daughter of a victim of the blast, itself an eloquent testimony to the fact that the bombers' principal aim (to build what they called "a ravine of hate" between communities) was unfulfilled.