Is this film really graphic?

From what I've read, this is a very accurate depiction of what happened(though I've also read that it varied depending on where in the country you were placed). As for how graphic it is-not terribly. Most of the gore is concentrated into the first half of the film when cities are being bombed, but these shots are rarely lingered on. Most of the more bloody violence in the second half is off-screen. Ultimately I wouldn't say this film is any more graphic than your standard war film. It is quite a bit more disturbing, though.

The movie is definitely violent and pretty graphic, but I have heard it actually falls short of how bad it really was, only because it probably would have made the movie too excruciating and perhaps unwatchable for all but a few brave souls. That's not to say the movie means to be inaccurate, only that it is as accurate as they dared get and does enough to get its point across. I have also heard that the sequence depicting one character's escape from the killing fields only captures a small taste of how difficult that true sequence of events really was.

To me, it is the best dramatic film ever made about the crime of genocide, even better than "Schindler's List" and definitely better than "Hotel Rwanda" (good movie, but overrated). "Shoah," the 9 1/2 hour documentary about the Holocaust (meant to be viewed in a single sitting) is maybe (maybe) the only movie on the subject that is can compare.

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Given your background (and your parents) you probably should see it, as well as pick up some books (First They Killed My Father, Year Zero. . . ) you'll see a really familiar these as the Cambodian Holocaust was so systematic, the survivors stories are very similar. Finally, if you haven;t already, I hope you can go visit you homeland. I've lived in Asian a long time and have been visiting Cambodia since 1999. It's a beautiful country and it's coming a long way. Maybe you can volunteer for a bit. The changes I've seen in just 15 years are amazing, and it's easy to spend your money locally and help the economy (it's not an expensive place to travel). Every time I visit I meet Cambodians who are returning for the first time. . . and now I meet children who are visiting for the first time, having been born in camps are abroad after their parents escaped. It might be bittersweet, but I think it helps you to understand where you come from. . . and maybe understand your parents a little better.

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After five years, you've probably seen it already but I do want to say while the graphic violence is pretty minor and rarely focused upon, the violence in this film is still more disturbing than your average war movie for some reason. Maybe it's because of the setting and the fact that many of the victims we see in the film are civilians, including children. But in terms of gore? You see a quick shot of a guy with his legs blown off. That's about the most graphic thing you see in the film. But the overall tone is still pretty unsettling.

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