szpancogito

This film is a copy of many others in this genre: first person narrator, crushing amounts of filthy language, slow motion shots, Pulp Fiction-style supposedly funny dialogues between thugs, glamorization of banditry, etc. It portrays a group of individuals with whom it is impossible to sympathize, who do foolish things and use disgusting idiom. I suppose it would hurt less to watch if they didn't use my native language Polish. But they do. This makes it unbearable. The sad thing is that young impressionable youths, who are the typical audience of such productions, easily pick up the same linguistic habits and outlook on life, which turn them into the same class of cultural and moral cripples as the characters of this sorry attempt at film-making.

In addition to portraying some of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, the purpose of the film is to point the finger at the ultimate culprit. Who was it? Well... Richard Nixon and the American Army. Surprising? Not to those familiar with the political agenda of Hollywood. I thought it would have been the role-models and intellectual gurus of the Sorbonne-educated communist idealists who led this carnage: Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Sartre, and Mao. Or perhaps those who fostered the growth of the Khmer Rouge and provided them with all necessary supplies: the Communist Party of China and Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese Army. Or maybe, last but not least, those enlightened left-liberal Americans who effectively stopped all American assistance to Indochinese peoples desperately fighting the communist onslaught. But no. According to the film, the Americans kept bombing the "neutral" Cambodia for an unspecified purpose or just out of malice. And this is why the Khmer Rouge won - with the approval of the Cambodians, who had understandably come to hate Nixon and the Americans. The only good guys in this film, except for the victims, are the Viet Cong who invade Cambodia for some reason (probably a humanitarian one). Learning history from Hollywood is not a good idea. I recommend the book Modern Times by Paul Johnson, instead - accurate, clear, concise.