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revolutionary Pol Pot who led the Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia from 1963 until 1997. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were in pursuit of transforming the Cambodian society to a utopian one and bringing the country to ‘’year zero’’ as Pol Pot put it. In only four years, from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge forces killed two million people while the devastation Pol Pot wreaked on his country remains hard to comprehend. The rise to power of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was inseparable from US intervention.

I first came across the highly-stylized film Moulin Rouge! when I was Fourteen-years-old. Immediately, I became obsessed. Yet, despite several months of fixation with the lavish musical, I have not watched the Baz Luhrmann directed film in almost seven years. A lot has changed in my life since my initial viewing. Yet, many things which first captivated me about the film still remain true. Therefore, a re-viewing of the film in order to track my emotional engagement with the film seems applicable

Moulin Rouge It was 1899 in Paris, France, it was the time of the Bohemian Revolution, and it was the summer of love. Christian, played by Ewan McGregor, was a writer and came to Paris to experience this revolution and be surrounded by the artists, singers, and dancers of this new Bohemian world. Little did he know that he would experience something he had never felt before but always believed in: love. Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann, is an exquisite movie musical based off of a real life

has been significantly affected by the ongoing communism and the rule of the Khmer Rouge during the 20th century. Referred to as The Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodian genocide, Year Zero and the Cambodian Holocaust, the rule of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1975-1979 has had a devastating impact on Cambodia and the country’s condition in the 21st century. Led by Pol Pot, the beliefs and objectives of the Khmer Rouge has resulted in Cambodia’s loss of culture and identity, the deaths of approximately

Both Baz Luhrmann in the 2001 romantic musical “Moulin Rouge” and Angela Carter in the 1984 novel “Nights at the Circus” use postmodern elements to explore the importance of storytelling. These two texts, both fin de siècle, set in 1899 to the dawning age of the 1900s, feature tales of extravagant performers, Satine and Fevvers, and their writer lovers, Christian and Walser, on their journeys of self-discovery and revolution. Both texts feature main female characters with theatrical professions,

Power and Control: The Khmer Rouge There are many genocides that people are not aware of. One of them is the attempted genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge was able to gain power and remain in control of Cambodia for years without interference because they isolated the country from any foreign influence. Other countries had no idea what was happening inside Cambodia until years later. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, wanted to create their own ideal communist

Introduction The Khmer Rouge was a communist group that believed they could turn Cambodia into a communist agrarian utopia. Pol Pot set his eyes on first overthrowing the current government. Once he took the capital of Cambodia the group began forcing victims to go on long marches to get to different parts of the country. The Khmer Rouge also began killing those they thought were intellectuals, for example, doctors, teachers, lawyers, and other educated people they thought of intellectuals were

The documentary that was played in class discussed the atrocities and the violent acts that the Cambodian people had experienced during the Khmer Rouge. The most important takeaways that I got from watching these movies was that the Khmer Rouge occurred in large part to paranoia and that the main leaders who were in charge of the killings regretted their decisions. The main leaders, such as Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, largely authorized this genocide. Nuon Chea explicitly said that he was sorry and completely

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Difficulties By the time the Khmer Rouge regime was ousted from power in 1979, the United Nations Human Rights Commission had already received a 995-page report of testimonies on massive human rights violations in Democratic Kampuchea . The gravity of the crimes perpetrated was so great that the need for a judicial instance to render justice seemed evident. According to Francis Deron, the proposal for a Khmer Rouge Tribunal had significant historical importance as it was

anyone with above a 7th grade education, and western influenced-people were systematically killed during the genocide. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge started the genocide on April 17th, 1975 when they evacuated the city of Phnom Penh along with other major cities and forced people into the countryside where their work camps were. Even though Pol Pot and the Khmer rouge failed to create a “Pure Kampuchean Society”, their actions devastated all of Cambodia. Millions of Cambodians were displaced from their