Scattered perception

Muriel 2022-09-30 17:23:48

A large number of Khmer dialogues are not translated, and the translations between English and French seem to be very rough. There are always barrages coming out to cover things in other countries to one's own country, regardless of the reason why oranges are born in Huaibei. It may be these reasons that make me underestimate this movie.

The cross-border friendship between the two male protagonists is full of American routines (although it seems to be a British movie), and the feeling of being saved and saved. Well, this is the main theme of the US movie, although it also criticized the US bombing of Cambodia that caused civilian casualties.

The scene at the beach at sunset is beautiful, just like the poster.

Although it's a film about massacres, it's not disgusting overall, only the part that fell into the puddle is a bit unbearable. Most of them express the cruelty of war by crying children. The image of a child sitting on a high place alone amidst the gunfire, crying with his hands on his ears, is very impressive.

The main members of the Khmer Rouge seem to be teenagers, even children. Of course, young people are most likely to be brainwashed, or the under-educated are the most likely to be brainwashed, because the animal instinct of blindly conforming to the crowd has not been corrected by education. The only Khmer Rouge in the film who thinks about preventing the massacre is a middle-aged man who speaks French.

I just wanted to write a short review, but I accidentally wrote too much and couldn't let it go. . .

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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.