always doubt those reunions

Anita 2022-05-06 06:01:07

There will always be doubts about those reunions, whether it's three or five, and even in the process I've seen the reunion as her imagination. That is always too cruel, and such a reunion contains a huge drama, but for war, for totalitarianism, it seems like the possibility that no matter how cruel things will happen

The original is a memoir, and the film is presented from a single perspective. Very few dialogues, the perspective of children, the confusion of individuals in the huge war, the visualization of private memories, the pain can be clearly conveyed to the audience, and the more in-depth thinking and criticism are left to ourselves

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First They Killed My Father quotes

  • [first lines]

    Richard Nixon: [on broadcast TV] Cambodia, a small country of 7 million people, has been a neutral nation since the Geneva agreement of 1954. American policy since then has been to scrupulously respect the neutrality of the Cambodian people.

    British Reporter: [standing with troops] The Vietnamese armies on the south side of the river appear to be indifferent to the contest.

    Cambodian Politician: Under the pretext that there is a war necessity, they come into Cambodia.

    Field Reporter: Are you glad to be in Cambodia?

    Soldier: Negative. No.

    Radio Reporter: The principle casualties appear to be innocent Cambodians.

    Henry Kissinger: [at podium] ... the occasional difficulties in reaching a final solution.

    Richard Nixon: What we are doing is to help the Cambodians help themselves. This is *not* an invasion of Cambodia.

    French Reporter: The Nixon Doctrine for Southeast Asia appears to have failed. The war that began in Vietnam has now engulfed Cambodia. There is anger and frustration at the US bombings. Thousands of lives lost. Farms and livelihoods destroyed.

  • Propoganda Announcer: It's better to make a mistake and kill an innocent person than to leave an enemy alive.