My perfect film

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2004)

Quite simply this is my favourite film of all time. It does everything a proper film should do it made me laugh and it made me cry, it was a roller-coaster of emotions. So different to the rubbish Hollywood films that pollute our screens nowadays and try and squeeze everything into their separate genres which bore the hell out of me. I was amazed when seeing the credits I had actually visited the location of the filming in Hua Hin and Phuket, Thailand without even knowing it. I think this movie makes me a lot more sad than films such as 'Schindler's List' because this was just before my life time and this is 'auto genocide' the killing of your own people and south-east Asian people are so nice and welcoming usually. I believe every movie lover should watch this film, which has modern connotations due to the harsh, unnecessary involvement of U.S. forces in global conflict leaving a power vacuum to be exploited on the people as in modern day Iraq. I will visit Cambodia next year with this movie in the back of my mind wanting to a find a beautiful people unfortunately still suffering today.