![]() It is a film that forces its audience to look inside themselves and ask why their country didn’t do anything, why their country should’ve done something and if either they or their country are doing anything now. ![]() It is not a film you watch to “enjoy” in any real sense of the word. Aerial shots of thousands of people walking convey the sheer number of people affected by the Cambodian genocide in a way that forces the audience to grapple with the subject matter head and realize what it would be like to be forced from your home and lose everyone and everything that ever mattered to you. The music by Marco Beltrami (“The Hurt Locker”) imbues the film with a sense of terror as well as a sense of scale. The audience will find itself hard-pressed to look away as the atrocities begin to pile up and the sadness of the characters’s situation begins to hit home. With a personal investment in this story, Jolie fills every frame of the film with this sense of hopelessness and confusion that is as unnerving as it is compelling. ![]() The family is slowly torn apart as the genocide ramps up its terror.įilms about genocide are tricky. ![]() Fearing they will be targeted due to their family’s connections to the previous government, they flee to the countryside where they end up forced to work in a series of labor camps. Beginning in 1975, the film chronicles the story of Loung Ung and her family as they are forced to deal with an increasingly terrible series of events due to the rise of the communist regime of the Khmer Rouge. ![]()
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