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Los viajes del viento (2009)
Disappointing plot
At the end you finish as Fermin: going back empty. Good things: amazing views of a country that has much to offer to the movie world. Some excellent actors mixed with some artificial ones. The best scene: the machete fighting, good for the cameras, but isolated and unclear once more inside the plot. Terrible: Fermin (the real main character) following a 'master' who teaches nothing to him (movie mistake.) You would expect that, as a Chinese master of martial arts, Carrillo would teach him, but it never happens and Fermin ended humiliated at the end as the spectator. No smiling at all, but no meaning on it also. Very rude in any sense (the psychology of the characters.) Dialogs that seem inspired in works of Gabriel García Márquez but applied in a very poor way. Failed tries of sub-realism like the part of the sorcerers. Best actor: Yull Núñez.
Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (1996)
historical documentary about the Khmer Rouge regime.
The story is moving and, by using this character, you get an idea of the kind of dramas the Cambodians endured during the Khmer Rouge regime.
The director, Rithy Pahn, looks for this kind of confrontations with real people to recount the history. A good purpose and a good work. The promotional comparison of Bophana with Anne Franz is exaggerated and fall in the intention to commercialize the drama of history.
The letters of Bophana were found by the researches into the archives of infamous Khmer Rouge torture center, S-21, especially Elizabeth Becker, who wrote the book 'Bophana, a Cambodian Tragedy.' It was requested by Cambodian-French director, Rithy Panh, he himself a former child victim of the regime. Letters were addressed to Ly Sitha, the man to whom Bophana loved, but they were separated by the tragic events of the Khmer Rouge regime. Sitha eventually became a cadre, while Bophana was likely a slave in the rice pads. Their love letters became the reason to be accused of 'high betrayal', arrested and sent to the infamous torture center. They died in the place.