So much average

Sick Product of a Sick System

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

What a beautiful, haunting, horrific movie. You actually don't see too much violence, but you know it's there. The central performance by the young girl is frighteningly good. She doesn't scream, she doesn't shout and yet her eyes tell a thousand stories. a Netflix original, I was absolutely glued to the screen. Horrific subject matter but a story that has to be told.

I have no clue why the rating for this movie is so low. I have seen all the movies that were nominated this year, and for me, hands down, this was the best movie I have seen this year. I could not take my eyes off it for one minute. The acting was outstanding, by all, especially the little girl who plays the main character. It is shown with such grace and compassion. The scenes were fantastically shot. It's is such a sad world, especially when we are driven to kill our own people. The only reason I decided to watch it was because it was directed by Angelina Jolie, and to be honest my expectations were low. Wow was I wrong.everything about this film was unbelievably heartfelt, it was done with such sweetness.

We had a plumber come by, and he was a very talkative fellow. He kept asking us if we had any questions about plumbing. When he was all done, we just chit-chatted for about an hour. His parents are from Cambodia, and we asked him a lot about Cambodian culture, and he mentioned this movie. It was on Netflix so I watched it.This movie is a dramatization about one little girl's experience during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It shows her experiences through her eyes. Almost all the dialogue is in the Khmer language with English subtitles. I hate subtitles because you miss what's going on when you're reading, but in this case they used the language to make it authentic.I hate to say this, but the dramatization is rather lame. It's watered down. The events portrayed in the movie do not even come close to showing how horrific this little girl's experience was. The movie is based on a book which is very well written. If you like the movie, then you should get the book. It's much more intense.It's an important movie. It's important that movies like this and "Schindler's List" and "Birth of a Nation" get made from time to time to remind us and to show the next generations how horrific these events are hopefully so the world will work together to stop events like these before they happen.

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER is the high-profile exploration of life under the Khmer Rouge, based on a non-fiction novel and filmed by Angelina Jolie. I found it a somewhat overrated experience that feels overlong and disappointingly mundane, sugar-coating some of the material (this has a happy ending, no less) and toning down all of the violence and depravity that took place in Cambodia in the 1970s. I'm not a gorehound looking for sadistic entertainment, but I did expect something a little more than endless drawn-out scenes of a young girl witnessing death and chaos but somehow always feeling on the outside. There's no real emotional value here, and although the film is very well shot and authentically acted, it just feels like a missed opportunity in comparison to something genuinely powerful like THE KILLING FIELDS.