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De Oost aka The East History learning was not what I expected when going to see this movie. I would not mind to see dramatization of true events. With all due respect to the intention of the maker of the movie, i.e. To start educating the Dutch people about the dark past of their nation, unfortunately I have to say that in general the movie is kind of boring. I wish I had seen a more "entertaining" piece. Also, to my feeling, the movie is tinted here and there by illogical artefacts. This is partly because, being an Indonesian, while seeing the movie I constantly tried to project scenes and settings in the movie onto real images that you would have or would recognize in your mind, though not intentionally. So while watching I kept murmuring "it does not add up... it does not add up..." Some examples are: It seems that the movie wants to depict Saigon-like circumstances with prostitution scenes. Prostitution did happen but most probably only in large towns. The setti