Funan

Very intense and realistic plundging back into 1975 revolution; deportation of local population and forcing them to arm and fight for the communistic way of life, where you feel human value has no meaning. Harsh behaviors forcing people to labor work. Today when visiting Cambodia you can still feel the strong presence of communist residue and poverty

I was disappointed in several ways. First, the animation quality was poor flat 2-D resulting in this tragic event lacking/conveying emotion or connectivity to the people & environment. Second, the dialogue seemed too scripted & lacked critical emotion. Third, the movie conveys little to nothing of the horrific events that took place by the Khmer Rouge (largely funded out of China) in Cambodia during their four year terror ('75-'79). Imagine the over 1 million people being forced to drive, but mostly walk as they left the capital to work in manual labor, and during that time well over a million people died.

Funan is a good film. It tells an interesting story and it has beautiful animation, but it had one glaring problem. It took little time to establish big moments. Some things happen so abruptly without notice, the exposition, for example. The movie is slow, yet it is so fast at the same time. There were so many instances in the film that could've been so much better. The execution could've been better, it could've created a more powerful narrative. Like for example, there was this really powerful moment at the end of the film and then it was just cut off by another scene and it ruined it. There were so many instances of this and it really bothered me. Besides that, it's fine. I rate Funan a 7/10.

Great background and setting drawing but not so great characters, beacuse the style feels like not in complete harmony with the rest of the image and story. Taking into account the type of story they are telling us, an undercooked or less detailed design would have worked better to me, leaving the only nice to see thing, the background, as the vanishing point for the viewer from the nightmare these people had to experience.

For those of you that want to know more about this historical event, i would recommend you this two documentaries; {S-21: the Khmer rougue killing machine} (2003) and {The missing picture} (2013),both directed by Rithy Panh.

This is one of the most touching movies i have seen in a long time, I wouldn't call this a review, as i am not a movie reviewer. Just Watch it.