A documentary film adapted from the memories of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge incident. Although it is a documentary, it rarely has the format of a documentary.
To be honest, at first I went to watch the movie with Angelina Jolie as the director, but after learning about the truth, I was still very shocked and regretful. "They Killed My Father First: Memoirs of a Cambodian Daughter" traces the "Khmer Rouge" incident through the eyes of a little girl. This angle is very good, because the heroine in the film is pure and innocent, she seems to have nothing to do with this tragic incident, but she was born in that era. What kind of age would make a little girl say something like "I hope he doesn't reincarnate".
The simple and innocent girl still maintains the optimism of fantasy and survival in the most difficult times. When she suffers, she always thinks back to the good times in the past. In the sharp contrast between the shattered joy of the past and the real suffering at this time, red. The atrocities of the Khmer Legion are known from this. The Khmer Rouge army forcibly confiscated people's property, forced labor, and mentally brainwashed children. extreme communism.
In an age of killing, girls "become less human" in order to survive. A group of children who were supposed to play innocently had to undergo military training, fight each other and shoot with mines. The girl seldom shed tears throughout the film, and she couldn't hold back her tears until she saw innocent people die in the mines she helped plant with the Khmer Rouge.
At the end of the film, there is peace and the girl picks a lot of lotus flowers and imagines her dead brother coming back. I didn't know what the lotus meant at first, but I didn't know until the end that the lotus represented the transcendence of the undead.
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