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.
Plot summary
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future.
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It's a fine film with many flaws
the khmer
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
Disappointed
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.