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Jun 20, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In 1975, Cambodia, destabilized by the Vietnam War, was taken over by the Khmer Rouge, which was driven by its crazy ideology of forming an agrarian socialist society. Between 1.5 and 3.0 million people died of torture, murder and starvation as the idea was to move millions from the cities and have everybody live in the countryside. Since so much of the films of the time were deteriorated or destroyed, the director of this film replaced much of what happened by clay figures interspersed with archival film that while highly deteriorated, still was shown with all its flaws to produce a surrealistic vision of what happened. The story of this film is what happens when power hungry individuals with unrealistic ideas take over an entire country.