HERE, Only the silent survive.

Jarrell 2022-12-23 21:50:42

I'm so glad I didn't live in that age of war. The things that war brought were
too scary.
Everyone (Khmer Rouge) was like
a walking dead.
Life doesn't seem to be worth mentioning.
As people say, without the Communist Party, there would be no new China. It is indeed a progress compared to the monarchy and the feudal Communist Party,
but film gave me a sense of reality. War and political parties are not as harmonious as imagined
. At the same time, some things are bound to be lost
, life, belief, culture, and even human nature. The
film gives me a heavy feeling, the kind of heavy feeling that can't shed tears but is trembling. At the
end, when Sydney and Prang hugged each other, the Beatles I burst into tears when the song came out but I also know how hard and lucky
it is to be in that reality
.
HERE, Only the silent survive.

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  • Al Rockoff: Pran's not gonna last five minutes out there! The Khmer Rouge have killed every fuckin' journalist they've ever caught! Now does Syd know how serious this is!

    Jon Swain: [Panicking] Of COURSE he bloody knows!

  • K.R. Cadre-First Village: [Referencing the earlier scene in which Pran saved his life by giving him the expensive Mercades Benz emblem] Mercades... Number 1.

    [grabs Pran's face roughly before cutting him loose instead of murdering him]