Most sure that was not the intention from the director or the writer, but hearing Lennon´s "Imagine" at the end of the movie, can be viewed as something pretty ironic, even sarcastic. Specially when you think about some lines of the song. Consider:
"Imagine... no religion... no possessions...no need for greed... all the people sharing all the world..."
Well, if you think about it, that was pretty much the kind of society that the Khmer Rouge were trying to create in Cambodia, the society from which Pran had just fled.
That is exactly the main thought I had after I finished watching this film.
It felt incredibly ironic - but the build up of the movie did not make it seem that some big ironic twist at the end was intentional.
And so maybe it should just serve as a reminder of how ridiculously lionized "Imagine" has become in Western society, used as a simple anthem for "peace," when it's ideas are unwittingly part of the fabric of some of the worst human rights abuses on the planet. Not to say that John Lennon would have agreed with anything done by such Communist regimes, and I understand what he was trying to say, but still. Sometimes good ideas on paper turn out to have tragically different dimensions in reality.
Arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBWDzkqEPY
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