>>It’s mostly anti-Khmer Rouge but with some anti-Americanism thrown it.
Yeah. The anti-America crap was mostly BS and probably necessary to get the film funded. After all, you can show the evils of communism if you spin it as Murrca’s Fault.
As I said in a prior post:
Imagine if someone were to do a movie about the atomic bombs dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the eyes of a Japanese child...no matter how “right” the decision was: war is war.
There are times in history when the lines between good and evil get blurry because even the cost for good to ultimately triumph, can be so great. (And bloody.)
And even the best of leaders and men are fallible. (Nixon’s entire presidency attested to this. Great and accomplished, but fallible.)