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On Wednesday, American film director, screenwriter and producer Oliver Stone, 63, will talk about peace to a Cambodian audience at the University of Cambodia. You have till 2 pm to review your classics and think about how he got involved in anti-war cinema. Watch Platoon for instance, and you will understand how he was disgusted by the violence after he experienced the Vietnam War as a young volunteer in infantry, where he served in the US army at the Cambodian border and came back one and a half year later, awarded for his courage.

Since then, the director – converted to Buddhism – has always focused on very controversial political or cultural stories...