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The Killing Fields [1984]


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kmer rouge camp
Review date: 2008-10-16 Rating: 10 out of 10

this movie is one of the best movie about the vietnam war along with deer hunter or full metal jacket
instead of making american the center of the story it tell the story of this local journalist forced to stay in cambodia and caught as prisonner by the kmer rouge ,it s a story about friendship ,about war and genocide
the picture is astounishly beautiful it s probably the best film on that subject and the music is quite into the drama


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Tribute to Haing S Nor
Review date: 2007-12-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

A very touching film that recounts the excesses of the Khmer Rouge during the 1970's regime of Pol Pot. This is the most important film that recounts the instability of South Eastern Asia and is on a par with other classics such as Deer Hunter and Apocalpyse Now.
The scene where Dith Pran's photo disappears as he is about to leave Cambodia, leaves an indelible indication of his ensuing fate.
The performances all around superb without exception. Haing S. Ngor, who was tragically killed a few years ago, delivers a riveting, emotionally wrenching turn as the guide who is trapped in Cambodia and forced to fight for his life. He deservingly won the Oscar, though it's a shame he was snubbed for the best actor award. Inarguably, he's the film's central character and he also has more screen time than top-billed Sam Waterston. Despite my complaint on that matter, Waterston is also excellent as the journalist with a guilty conscience.

The Killing Fields is a suspenseful and exhilarating experience, a journey through an apocalyptic landscape that features one shocking image after another. Watch, and you'll see why the film is so acclaimed.

Deserves the three oscars it received!
Review date: 2007-06-06 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film tells the true story of two journalists in Cambodia during the turmoil of 1970s Cambodia. One is the American Sydney Schanberg (played by Sam Waterston) and the other is the Cambodian Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor). As the Khmer Rouge approach the fall of capital Phnom Penh becomes imminent, the foreign embassies pack up and move out and the journalists are forced to take refuge in the French embassy. The Khmer Rouge have however demanded that all Cambodians in the embassy be turned over, and fearing attack, the occupants agree. Dith Pran is therefore in trouble. The foreign journalists come up with a plan...

The film is very well cast, with excellent acting and character depth as shown by Haing Ngor winning a well deserved oscar for best supporting actor. It is at times brutal, at others touching.

Highly Recommended

A masterpiece of a testimony !!!
Review date: 2007-04-09 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is a cult film in many ways even if time is making it a lot less poignant than it used to be. It is definitely a denunciation of the Cambodian caper of President Nixon. The bombing and then the invading of Cambodia were neither justified nor in any way effective. The Vietnam war was lost when Nixon decided to invade Cambodia and this invasion spread American troops and military means over two wide a territory to even pretend the war was not lost. The invasion of Cambodia was the last straw that broke the camel's back. We could wonder today whether Kissinger let Nixon do this mistake to bury him in this war and thus enable himself to negotiate some kind of a peace agreement. An American journalist lost in this chaos and overwhelmed by the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh was a witness to this senseless and absurd caper or continuation of a ridiculous war. But he had to use the services of a local journalist to be the interface between him and the locals. Unluckily this Cambodian journalist stayed too long and he could not escape from the claws of the Khmer Rouge. Then it is a story of resistance and resilience to survive the most horrendous conditions. He will manage to escape absolutely alone though he had started in a group of six or seven. Even the child he had been entrusted with will die along the way blown up by a mine. This is a true story, a testimony about one of the most astounding catastrophe and tragedy of our modern world, a war unjustified and lost even before being started waged by the USA in a country that they did not even know leading to one of the worst ever genocide in modern history performed by the Cambodians themselves onto the Cambodian people they made regress to some medieval state in just a few months and for a few years that lasted centuries. We westerners love exporting our worst nightmares to foreign countries and some of us never learn a lesson and are always ready to do better than some others before us. If the French lost the Indo-chinese war in 1954 there was absolutely no reason why the Americans could win it. If the French lost the Algerian war in 1962 and the British lost the Middle East and Egypt quite some time before there is absolutely no reason why the Americans could do better. This film is a testimony to the suffering the vanity of some of our inspired western leaders imposes onto millions of people around the world. For one case that ends with a little bit of joy, millions of cases end in plain death.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne


4 Stars for passion
Review date: 2007-03-18 Rating: 8 out of 10

The Killing Fields is a very worthy film; the political message of the film is passionate and intelligent and the film is very much intent on showing the vast human tradegy that befell Cambodia following the spillover of the Vietnam war in the early 70's- a tradegy that was still occuring when the film was being shot.

The production values and the attention details are excellent and the film is very well directed and produced.
The film does veer into full blown sentimentally at the end (the use of Imagine by John Lennon is particularly unnecessary, almost as if it was to balance the earlier use of McCartney's Band on the run).
Overall though, very worthy and an important history lesson of a conflict that the West knew very little of, and cared even less for.

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Actor(s):
Craig T. Nelson
Haing S. Ngor
John Malkovich
Sam Waterston
Julian Sands

Creators:
Sam Waterston (Primary Contributor)
Haing S. Ngor (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Optimum Releasing
Manufacturer: Optimum Releasing
EAN: 5060034576273
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-07-10
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 141 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1984
Language: English (Original Language)

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