famous in the 1960s for his interpretation of the role of Tum. He would after help for the revival of the play after the fall of the Khmer Rouges. Critical scholarship using Tum Teav is diverse. Tum Teav was the exemplary text in a 1998 article, "A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide," by Alexander Laban Hinton that tries to understand anthropological motivations for the scale of violence perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. That article reads in Tum Teav a cultural model of karsângsoek, or "disproportionate revenge." Ârchoun's murder of Tum, a blow to the authority of the King, is returned by the genocide of Ârchoun's line: "a head for an eye." In 2000, the music production company Rasmey Hang Meas adapted the story into a full-length karaoke musical on DVD. In 2003, the story was again adapted into a two-hour film directed by Fay Sam Ang. In 2021, an updated version of the Tum Teav was uploaded to YouTube by a group of young actors, causing a national scandal, for its explicit character. Though the plot was unchanged, the interpretation was considered insulting for Buddhist monks and traditional morality and the producers avoided a public trial but offering a public apology. See also Literature of Cambodia Tum Teav (2003 film) References Cambodian literature