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The Killing Fields

I bought the movie to show in my History Class as part of a lesson on revolutions gone bad. I saw it when it first came out and was very impressed then. My thoughts on its quality and content haven't changed. The viewer would do well knowing something about this part of the world and its history during the sixties and seventies. One has to pay attention and watch very carefully, as much is carried in the details. The soundtrack is well matched to the movie's story; Mike Oldfield did an excellent job. The Killing Fields is based on a true story, which only makes it better in my view.
It follows the lives of Sidney, a reporter from the New York Times, and Pranh, his Cambodian translator. It is set in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge revolution and chronicles its madness. The two lead characters eventually get separated as a result of the new Kampuchian Leadership ridding itself of all foreigners and punishing their sympathizers, but reunite after much hardship on the part of Pranh.
I hope you enjoy this chapter of Asian History as much as I did

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The Killing Fields (VHS, 1996)

This movie serves as a lesson to the world exactly what the motive and goal of communism really is. In the aftermath of the fall of Cambodian Lon Nol Government, and subsequent Khmer Rouge takeover, American journalist Sidney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his close associate Dith Pran (Hains S. Ngor), a Cambodian national, find themselves trapped in this political nightmare. An effort to get Pran out of Cambodia when the foreign citizens are released backfires and Pran is left to the terrors of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot prison camps and is a survivor of the killing fields, where anyone who assisted the West or was a teacher, or businessman, or dissident in any way, was taken out and murdered. Nobody knows just how many perished, but the number is surely in the millions. Pran managed to survive and finally escape. He begins his odyssey across the war-torn country eventually reaching a Red Cross camp in Thailand and safety. In New York, Sidney has spent years exhausting every diplomatic channel to find out anything about Pran. Pran's family is in New York, having been evacuated with other families. Pran was eventually rescued an brought to America to be with his family.Read full review...

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Shocking

Not many people know of this atrocity. Pol Pot was a really bad and disgusting leader. This is every Cambodian over the age of forty story.