Absolutely masterpiece. I've been waiting for the entire week to have a chance to watch this, and now I've experience this work of art.
Watch this 4:3 ratio film with the static shots is really a new experience for me, not to mention that people in the cinema are really focus on the film, nobody makes a noise.
This is a beautiful film it's kinda a documentary/history film I think, but whatever, it's a piece of art. The shots composition from the opening scene until the end really impressed me, the balance shots are so beautiful I didn't see how we can make a simple balance shots to turn out it's beautiful like that, the pattern shots also.
It thrilled me all the time when the character take a risk to do something, some scene is just an invitation but I'm already think that they're gonna kill them.
This is the one that's different from the other Khmer Rouge films, it's a film from another person perspective which is the foreign. I used to see the tragic scenes of Khmer Rouge but here's a new one, they just have fun and playing around, but it doesn't last long though.
They were lucky to meet a good comrade and they were a friend of Pol Pot, otherwise they would have died on the first day. Really grateful for what they did to explore the truth about the Khmer Rouge, even though it was the most dangerous thing to take risks.
They did it good, but the ending wasn't good enough. If they focused more on the ending it'd probably the best film I can say. And one more thing is about the storytelling, they use little human to tell the story it's a creative way to do but they use it's a lot and some parts it doesn't tell the audience enough.
The concept art that they use to represent the character (I don't know what's called), using camera moment instead of character movement, tells the story with the soundtrack is on another level.
The fact is that they use real films from the Khmer Rouge to combine with the films they are making and the results are really good, that's so impressive. And Sophana mentioned again
I love the shots when they shoot Alain with Pol Pot, he's faceless, the scene is shot from his shadow to Alain's position and everything is shade by his shadow but except for Alain's face, and it completely tells us about the feeling that Alain experienced from his old friend. The entire movie doesn't have a single scene where they show Pol Pot's face to us, no matter which angle they shots, we only see his face in the photo.
I'm studying the documentary film right now, so this film really gives me the best advice to my studies, and yeah after I studied the documentary film I felt that the documentary film weren't bad at all and it helps me to understand the film better.
9.5/10
Btw, it's an awesome movie, don't let it pass!
