Remarkable Cambodian Documentary

[watutsi]

The documentary "The Act of Killing" [ J. Oppenheimer 2012 ] is rightly regarded as one of the most powerful documentaries ever made.It concerns the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of supposed communists in Indonesia in the mid 60's.Those of you who have seen it will know it is not an experience you will easily forget .

A couple of years before "The Act of Killing" a Cambodian journalist made a film remarkably similar in many ways but using a more subtle approach.

"Enemies of The People" [Thet Sambath 2010]

Over a period of 10 years he slowly befriended the killers [mostly villagers ] and Pol Pots number 2 Nuon Chen and through his very gentle manner and the fact that he never told them that his family had been murdered he eventually convinces them to talk . I have seen a few docs about this period in Cambodia's history but they usually leave me with more questions than answers, this film gets much closer to the "unspoken".

[pookiki]

I would recommend the book "When Broken Glass Floats". Not a documentary but a book that will have the same impact.