Movie: “First they Killed my Father”
Format: Netflix
Date: 2/9/18
Date Viewed: 2/9/18
Summary: The film takes place during the Vietnam War. In the movie the United States starts bombing Cambodia causing people to flee Cambodia. A man named “Ung” shows regret in trusting the Americans. Ung which goes by “Pa” to his children has to leave the city his family is in because the Khmer Rouge tells him that city will bombed by the United States. The family flees from their city and and go to the kids Uncle the brother of the mother of the children. The Uncle’s wife is begins to worry what would happen to them if they found out Ung identity because he works for the Government and because of this he will get killed. Ung’s family leaves because they don’t want …show more content…
On the camp there is extreme propaganda being played. Later in the camp Loung eldest siblings are reassigned and her sisters dies from starvation. Later on Loung sees her father being taken away by officials in a truck. Ung says goodbye to his family knowing what will happen to him. As Loung is sleeping she has a nightmare where she says her dead father buried in a mass graveyard. Loung Mother tells her children to flee to different locations and go to new camps under fake names so they wouldn’t get caught. Afterwards Loung is being trained to become a child soldier in the Khmer Rouge. Later on in the film she gets a pass to visit her sister but instead going to her sister she goes to her younger sister and mother where an old lady tells her that they were taken away by soldiers. At night Loung has a similar dream where she sees her father but instead is her mother and her younger sister. The Vietnamese attacks her camp where she has to flee the camp while fleeing she reunites with her siblings. Loung and her siblings go to a a refugee camp where the Khmer Rouge attack and during the conflict Loung is separated again and ends in a minefield that she created earlier in the film when
Format: Netflix
Date: 2/9/18
Date Viewed: 2/9/18
Summary: The film takes place during the Vietnam War. In the movie the United States starts bombing Cambodia causing people to flee Cambodia. A man named “Ung” shows regret in trusting the Americans. Ung which goes by “Pa” to his children has to leave the city his family is in because the Khmer Rouge tells him that city will bombed by the United States. The family flees from their city and and go to the kids Uncle the brother of the mother of the children. The Uncle’s wife is begins to worry what would happen to them if they found out Ung identity because he works for the Government and because of this he will get killed. Ung’s family leaves because they don’t want …show more content…
On the camp there is extreme propaganda being played. Later in the camp Loung eldest siblings are reassigned and her sisters dies from starvation. Later on Loung sees her father being taken away by officials in a truck. Ung says goodbye to his family knowing what will happen to him. As Loung is sleeping she has a nightmare where she says her dead father buried in a mass graveyard. Loung Mother tells her children to flee to different locations and go to new camps under fake names so they wouldn’t get caught. Afterwards Loung is being trained to become a child soldier in the Khmer Rouge. Later on in the film she gets a pass to visit her sister but instead going to her sister she goes to her younger sister and mother where an old lady tells her that they were taken away by soldiers. At night Loung has a similar dream where she sees her father but instead is her mother and her younger sister. The Vietnamese attacks her camp where she has to flee the camp while fleeing she reunites with her siblings. Loung and her siblings go to a a refugee camp where the Khmer Rouge attack and during the conflict Loung is separated again and ends in a minefield that she created earlier in the film when