September 18,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Free screening of Angelina Jolie’s movie, First They Killed My Father, tomorrow at George Washington Middle School – Monday, September 18th at 7 pm in GW Library – brought to you by the Ridgewood Cambodia Project – concession snacks and Cambodian items for sale to benefit RCP – please join us! Film is appropriate for ages 14 and over.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a 2000 non-fiction book written by Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and survivor of the Pol Pot regime. It is a personal account of her experiences during the Khmer Rouge years.
Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights, and sassing her parents. While her beautiful mother worried that Loung was a troublemaker—that she stomped around like a thirsty cow—her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl.
When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung’s family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education, their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Loung trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while other siblings were sent to labor camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia, destroying the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her surviving siblings were slowly reunited
The Ridgewood blog highly recommends this movie for all you “would-be commies” and any of you “hate America first types” the totally brutality of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge (utopian communism) will cure you of any of those maladies .
