"Diamond Island" by French-Cambodian filmmaker, Davy Chou.
Loved this film which was screened at Alliance Francaise on 21 March 2017. It starts with this publicity commercial of this beautiful, utopian ideal of city living in Cambodia called Diamond Island, set just a stone's throw away from Phenom Penh. There's this game reality about this commercial (imagine SIM City publicising this) and the best part... The highlight on this island has a ship-like tower that bears so much resemblance to Marina Bay Sands.
And that is true. I thought it must be a parody. They are at this moment building a hotel which looks like that in Cambodia, on Diamond Island.
This feature film about the loss of innocence of those 4 boys and the differing lives they lead because of the opportunities presented is sad yet so true.
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