documentary Cambodia
An extraordinary film. Far and away the best film ever done on the surrealistic madness that afflicted Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Archival footage was mixed with clay figures set in dioramas intended to show conditions prevailing at different stages of the Khmer Rouge insanity. The leaders of the revolution rejected the capitalist world with its colonialism, cruelty and exploitation and substituted a regime of surpassing deprivation, cruelty and widespread murder...of an entire population.
The techniques used in the film were representative and dramatic and successfully brought that world to light. The film was a lament, a remembrance, a powerful indictment of ideology of any stripe.
Who will make a similar film about the Western plutocracy? Who will be left?
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