Angelina Jolie"s The Day They Killed My Father was her best work as a director: a rare film about a national tragedy told through the eyes & mind of a child.

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The film was adapted by Jolie và co-writer Loung Ung from Ung"s memoir about her family"s experiences after the Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia.

General information

IMDb points:

7,2/ 15,944 Rates

Directors:

Angelina Jolie

Cast:

Sreymoch Sareum, Kompheak Phoeung, Socheata Sveng, Dara Heng, Kimhak Mun, Angkar, Loung Ung

Nation:

United State

Year:

2017

Time khổng lồ hit theaters:

February 18, 2017

Time:

136 Min

Movie summary

After the son was caught stealing corn & being brutally beaten, the mother decided to lớn tell the children to flee far away. Each person has a different direction. Kim (boy) - ran south, chu (sister - went north, Luong- east had khổng lồ walk until he reached a better labor camp, và had to say he was an orphan & not is allowed to give his real name, because if they catch one, they will not be able khổng lồ catch the others. Here, the sisters continued to lớn work hard và had lớn learn the "revolutionary" soldiers who hated the Duol (Vietnam) .Children were continuously propagated about the army.Angkar holds all power, Angkar is the savior & the liberator of the poor people, Angkar"s soldiers in the front lines are crushing the Vietnamese enemies, the glorious Cambodian friends for a long time.Later, Loung was recruited as a child soldier for the Khmer Rouge. Luong learned khổng lồ shoot guns & set traps, as well as make mines against the Vietnamese. The children here are continuously propagated to lớn hate the Vietnamese, & they also eat more and are treated better than the other workers in the labor camps.When Loung (the autobiographical character) was allowed khổng lồ return to visit her home, her mother was killed, leaving the house empty and cold.One day, Loung"s camp is destroyed by Vietnamese shelling, forcing her khổng lồ flee with other civilians. On the way, she reunited with her brother & sister and stayed one night in a field refugee camp run by the Vietnamese army. When the camp was attacked by the Khmer Rouge the next morning, they fled with protection from the Vietnamese army and headed lớn the jungle, where Loung was separated from his siblings and witnessed the mines. I have installed, causing casualties lớn many refugees.

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The three brothers were reunited in a Vietnam Red Cross relief camp on the border.There Loung saw people beating a Khmer Rouge prisoner. She sees him as her father và remembers painful things that happened in her life. Loung dreams of his father being executed & buried in a mass grave. When she calls the man "Pa", the others leave immediately. Loung looked at the prisoner & then left. When the war ended, Loung reunited with his brothers. Years later, the children are now grown up và pray for their deceased loved ones at an ancient temple.By executing, starving, by labor or forcing, the Khmer Rouge systematically killed nearly a quarter of the country"s population.The reunion of 6 brothers và sisters in a family of 3 boys và 3 girls after the death with 1,270 days (from April 17, 1975 khổng lồ January 7, 1979) living under the Pol Pot regime speaks for itself. The catastrophe of a people before the Pol Pot genocide.

Review

"The day they killed my father" is a film that denounces the barbarous crimes of the Pol Pot gang in a fairly convincing way with scenes of real & vivid value. The film is the representative of Cambodia for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. In addition, the film also won many other prestigious awards.