First They Killed My Father

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Leaburn O Not a very good film adaptation of a not very good book. Watched on Betflix. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/28/25 Full Review Martin R I just watched this movie this year and it’s a great film to point out how U.S imperialism supported the genocide around in Cambodia. I highly recommend watching it if you’re very against the U.S empire for their actions of genocide of hundreds of years ago this movie is why you should watch it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/11/25 Full Review Gareth D Gut wrenching, heart breaking, brutal and poignant. Narrative driven and extremely visual with very little dialogue. A powerful movie. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/24/24 Full Review Luis M. D A historic drama narrated by a real-life survivor. It's as tense and gut-wrenching as the 1984 movie ‘The Killing Fields'. Definitely good! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/24/23 Full Review John S Very well done, shows humanity amid the brutality of the Khmer Rouge. Correctly recalls the cultural milieu of the 1970s in post colonial phnom phen. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/27/23 Full Review john f An important addition to the films portraying this era in Southeast Asia, and an improvement in some ways to the classic The Killing Fields (namely in its ability to focus more attention on the Khmer people while doing so in a sensitive and humanizing way). That said, the film still does not offer explanations for the decisions made by the Khmer Rouge (the fact that Pol Pot's ideas had come directly out of China), and the portrayal of the Vietnamese invasion and occupation is overly positive and incomplete (to be fair that wasn't the focus of this film). Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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