First They Killed My Father

By Deondre 2022-12-29 06:36:39

How can I forget?

There's a movie recently that I've been really looking forward to. Not only because it was adapted from a survivor's memoir, but because it felt too real. It is so real that everyone will feel a heavy sadness after reading it. (Maybe this is also the charm of "true events" movies.) "They Killed My Father First: Memoirs of a Cambodian Daughter" | 2017 It is worth mentioning that this is directed by Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie Fourth work. I admire this female director very much. When...

By Zachariah 2022-12-15 20:02:11

Wise Director Zhu

I have seen and watched documentaries about the Khmer Rouge before, and some of them were uncomfortable, too cruel and bloody. Julie's point of view is very clever, different from the usual films that describe this kind of grand historical event and also different from documentaries, but focuses on a family, with the family of a little girl as the line, it is the family that the Khmer Rouge wants to collapse. I, want to build a great communism that does not take family as a unit, and...

By Lyla 2022-12-12 14:23:53

Especially when shooting from the perspective of a little girl

The reason for watching this film is undoubtedly for the goddess Julie. What surprised me is that the story is told from the perspective of a little girl, and a lot of POVs also gave me some inspiration for the script creation. But in terms of plot, because I have seen another movie "The Pianist" before, it also tells the story of the family being separated due to World War II, and only the male protagonist survives in the end. So when I saw this film, I knew that the story must be based on the...

By Soledad 2022-11-29 11:58:38

The tragedy of hopeful times

Review: Overall, this film is still full of hope, although the process is not without a sense of depression. War means cruelty, and the girls and their family are actually the epitome of an era, and their families don’t represent thousands of families like them in that era. Reality separates little girls step by step. First is "home". They leave the home where they lived at the beginning, and then they give up valuable items in the home, give up private property, lose the opportunity to live...

By Davon 2022-11-14 05:27:59

The Khmer Rouge - The Shadow Behind the Vietnam War

To figure out the background of the Khmer Rouge and this film, most of the film reviews are simply specious!
After the end of World War II, the United States saw that Southeast Asia was red and felt that this was not possible, so it launched the Vietnam War. And poor Cambodia is right next to Vietnam. Vietnam said to Cambodia, how about letting the eldest brother rest? Of course it is - well, well. When the United States saw that the Vietnam War was getting worse and worse, and there were...

By Alaina 2023-09-24 22:01:59

Not only the little girl in the movie doesn't understand what's going on in front of her eyes, but even I, who have read this history from the perspective of God, don't understand why it happened and it's incomprehensible. The bloodiest scene in the whole film is the landmines laid by the children at the end, which killed not the enemy but the innocent people who fled the country... ps: The people's commune is to break up the concept of "family", and their family is in the people's commune....

By Orland 2023-09-20 13:53:02

4.5, the news clip at the beginning transitions the perspective to Cambodia. The POV shots that follow show that the audience has been made into a little girl "Lang". "He" is not a documentary, with fast-paced and subjective flashbacks, and film language such as montage occupies a large proportion and is indispensable. Subjectivity or even prejudice is implied from America's ambiguous position in the film, but instead, it provides a historical response in context. Even its Southeast Asian...

By Kennith 2023-09-13 09:25:28

The mediocrity of the running account style, in addition to narrating the experience of the little girl in the big background, is too scattered to grasp the point. Such a good subject matter, if you don't know the choice, it will be more meaningful to make a...

By Coby 2023-09-11 12:52:37

The relationship between the Khmer Rouge and the Chinese government at the...

By Marge 2023-09-10 07:28:41

The first movie I watched about...