The Killing Fields

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acsdoug D The film prefers to blame the U.S. for these horrific events, regardless of the fact that communist guerillas were fighting the Cambodian government for years before the U.S. started its limited bombing campaign in 1970. Moreover, the Khmer Rouge received no encouragement from the United States to begin its genocide. Still, this is a powerful and true story that shows the sadistic cruelty and evil of Communism. I heard that the film makers toned down the actual atrocities so it would appear more "believable" to Western audiences. Read Dr. Ngor's book. He had it much worse than Dith Pran did (the misery level differed in various parts of the country) and he pulled no punches in his written account. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/13/25 Full Review Per S Unpleasantly realistic and crrently topical. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/08/25 Full Review Alain E The achievement of this movie is to make a boring film about war. How critics who liked Apocalypse Now or the Deer Hunter approved of this mess? I watched 40 minutes that I will never get back. I am stuck in a hotel waiting for cardiac emergencies, so I saw the rest. The same impression. It runs for 2 hours? It could run for 6. The lesson: Khmer Rouge are bad, American journalists are good. In the final scene the Cambodian fixer reunites with the American reporter and I assume for what the director thought it conveyed emotional weight, stand twenty feet apart and look at each other, like adolescent girls. Curtain. On Tubi with reasonable amount of ads. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/03/25 Full Review jacob c The Killing Fields is a powerful, heartbreaking and harrowing biographical war drama that is brilliantly crafted and terrifically acted. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/24/25 Full Review Hugh J An emotional retelling of one of the darkest periods of Cambodian and global history. This film expertly portrayed the experience under the khmer rouge and did not shy away from the emotional and physical atrocities of war. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/19/24 Full Review Leonardo M What a chaos. The first 40min of the film are fillers, with a sequence of events and a narrative that adds zero to the arch of the story for the latter 1h20 min. Then, the movie oscillates between some story and random depictions of war in Cambodia that again add nothing to the story arch. John Malkovich's character is seen most of the time just randomly taking photos in a hassle, there is not even a clear reason why. Despite the fact that they had to use film at the time, the photographer is never carrying film rolls or multiple cameras. The movie is mostly very unrealistic and doesn't really offer any glimpse into the war, the state of Cambodia at the time, the invasion the movie was supposed to depict or the journalists. There is very little dialogue, most of the time the characters are running on screen. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/07/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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