I began watching the movie wanting to hate it because of the media reports that I had seen. However, I will say that this is a movie that stays with you, it makes you think long after the final credits roll. Taking yhe slight leftward bias into account, the films visuals and story pull you in. The film is best viewed through the lens of a case study of the last days of any despotic regime. The struggle for power, the atrocities, the senselessness of the holdouts even though they know all is lost. SPOILER. aLERT- I’ll give you a chance to switch to a different post now….. the ending was a bit cliched. If the main leads, character was a jaded as she appears in the beginning of the film, she would have let the young girl get shot to death and photographed what she foretold at the beginning of the film.