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Are "Rail of the Star ☆" and "First They Killed My Father" The Same Movie?

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  (These are the posters for Rail of the Star ☆ and First They Killed My Father .)   I wasn't sure if I was going to write this, but I since I started thinking about it, I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I thought, "What the heck?" So, I'm writing it. If you follow my blog, you'll know that I recently covered the two war films, First They Killed My Father and Rail of the Star ☆ . Now, these movies might seem different on the surface. First They Killed My Father is a live action historical drama war film that focuses on the Cambodian Genocide πŸ‡°πŸ‡­πŸ’€ and the Cambodian-Vietnamese War πŸ‡°πŸ‡­πŸ‡»πŸ‡³, while Rail of the Star ☆ is an anime historical drama war film that focuses on World War II and the Japanese colonial rule over Korea πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅. They cover vastly different time periods, and vastly different conflicts. You would not expect them to have any similarities at all, but they do. These two movies are remarkably similar to each other, and it's thanks to me ...

My Thoughts on "First They Killed My Father"

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Note:   This was originally written on Monday March 27, 2023, and was posted on DeviantART the day after on Tuesday March 28, 2023. I've been teasing it for a long time, ever since I started this blog, but it's finally here. I'm finally posting my review of First They Killed My Father , the historical drama film from Angelina Jolie about the Cambodian Genocide πŸ‡°πŸ‡­πŸ’€. I believe that this her second directorial effort if I'm not mistaken. Her first movie of course was Unbroken , a World War II movie about American POWs πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese military πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅. The movie centered around an Olympic athlete named Louis "Louie" Zamperini, who participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the one Hitler hosted, and then joined the US Army Air Force πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ in September 1941.  This was before the US military πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ had its own dedicated air force. The two main branches, the Army and the Navy effectively had their own air forces before the Pentagon decided to...