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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The Killing Fields quotes

  • Dith Pran: [voiceover in Khmer Rouge reeducation camp] I'm full of fear, Sydney. I must show no understanding. Not of French or English. I must have no past, Sydney. This is the year zero and nothing has gone before.

  • Sydney Schanberg: As they pondered their options in the White House, the men who decided to bomb and then to invade Cambodia concerned themselves with many things: great power conflicts and collapsing dominoes, looking tough and dangerous to the North Vietnamese, relieving pressure on the American troop withdrawal from the South. They had domestic concerns, as well, which helps explain why they kept the bombing of Cambodia a secret for as long as they could. And they may be assumed not to have ignored self-interest in their own careers. But they specifically were not concerned with, were the Cambodians themselves. Not the people, not the society, not the country. Except in the abstract as instruments of policy. Dith Pran and I tried to record and bring home here the concrete consequences of these decisions to real people - to human beings, the people left out of the Administration's plans, but, who paid the price and took the beating for them.