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Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Former monarch, King Norodom Sihanouk, declared that he decided to stop producing movies because of the recent criticisms made on the shooting of a scene in his movie on 02 January 2008. The scene depicted the evacuation of the population from Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, and it was criticized as being not too faithful to the event. In an annotation to a royal message dated 06 January, stating: “There are some journalists and kids who criticized me, Norodom Sihanouk, very strongly. Because I always feel worried with cinematography, I am informing our compatriots inside and outside the country, that from now on, I will stop producing movies.” The first act of King Father’s movie, titled Monatio, which depicted the evacuation of the population from Phnom Penh city, near the Independence Monument, some people have criticized the filming, saying that some of the actors wore black clothes like the KR (soldiers), however, their behaviors have nothing to do with the KR.
