When watching the film, the S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine I found it difficult to watch. I don’t like when people cry and seeing the former prisoner Chum Mey being so broken even though he survived was tough to watch. He couldn’t really speak much about the events because he was so traumatized. He didn’t have to speak much for the audience to capture the pain he had endured. Another part of the film that captured my attention was the art work Vann Nath painted it was beautiful and had such a way with capturing the events that took place in Cambodia. It is one thing to live during a genocide and surviving it but the way the prisoners and the guards (their former captures) went through and discuss the events as well as reenact what took
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The Poet: Unconcealed Poetry is another re- enactment film that is similar to S- 21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. This film takes place in Indonesia and has also resulted in as many as two million Indonesians executed as a result of suspected communism. Deirdra Boyle examines both films and discusses how both “recuperate memories using very different strategies of re-enactment and performance to utter speechless horror and shatter lingering silence” (Boyle, 156). I think it is interesting that in different places very similar events have occurred. We have also seen similar events that resulted in World War II from Hitler. Another important point that was made about re-enactment films is that it is useful because it depicts the past. The interpretation of the events being re-enacted however when be judged from current times or time during filming can impact the way the viewer gathers in the information. For instance, when watching the re-enactment of the guards during S- 21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine it is easy for them to demonstrate what they did but it was hard to capture the violence. When Vann Nath reads and they have a discussion about what took place I felt like the discussion was capturing the violence more than when the guards went into the prison and
The Poet: Unconcealed Poetry is another re- enactment film that is similar to S- 21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. This film takes place in Indonesia and has also resulted in as many as two million Indonesians executed as a result of suspected communism. Deirdra Boyle examines both films and discusses how both “recuperate memories using very different strategies of re-enactment and performance to utter speechless horror and shatter lingering silence” (Boyle, 156). I think it is interesting that in different places very similar events have occurred. We have also seen similar events that resulted in World War II from Hitler. Another important point that was made about re-enactment films is that it is useful because it depicts the past. The interpretation of the events being re-enacted however when be judged from current times or time during filming can impact the way the viewer gathers in the information. For instance, when watching the re-enactment of the guards during S- 21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine it is easy for them to demonstrate what they did but it was hard to capture the violence. When Vann Nath reads and they have a discussion about what took place I felt like the discussion was capturing the violence more than when the guards went into the prison and