Film Review of "Killing Fields"

　 The movie Killing Field is a remarkable and deeply affecting film which is based upon a true story of friendship, the horrors of war and survival. It is following the historical events surrounding the US evacuation from Vietnam in 1975. The film is directed by Roland Joffe and produced by David Puttnam. The original character of the story who is a Cambodian journalist was an actual survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. He was tortured and experienced the starvation and death of his real-life family during the actual historical events revisited in this film.

In the movie, Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times correspondent. In 1973, he goes to Cambodia to report the war which starts from Vietnam and then crosses it's boundary to it's neighbour country. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they are covering some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces to leave Cambodia, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Sydney keep covering the event. As an American, Sydney won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran. As a local citizen, Pran can't leave without his passport and he is forced to remain. At the same time, the Khmer Rouge are moving in and then Pran's terrible life begins.

The movie can be divided into two part, the first is about the help, loyalty and friendship between the two protagonists: Pran and Sydney. In this part, Sydney diaplays more power and Pran seems to follow. At first, Pran is just a interpreter, a guide, he figure out the way to go the place where the explosion is happened for Sydney. Pran is just always follow behind Sydney and stands out whenever he needs help. They become friends very quickly and Pran saves the lives of the foreign correspondents from the knmer Rouge, but Sydney still in the leading position. At last, the foreign reporters tried make a passport for Pran to help him leave Combodia but they failed. Pran has to stay there and starts his "re-education" life.

In the second part, the roles changes. The moive just mentioned a little about Sydney and mainly describes the fugitive life of Pran. Pran keeps struggling and attemps to escape from his captors. The first time, he is caught back and almost died in the punishment. But he doesn't give up. The second time, he is succeed, and his horrifying walk through the skeletal remains of the brutal massacres in the Valley of Death. This makes his mind to escape much stronger and the muddy "killing fields" all present potent apocalyptic images on his journey to Thailand. The movie skips ahead to show Shanberg receiving a “Journalist of the Year” award in the US and Sydney argued with his friend in the restroom are formed a strong contrast.

I like this movie and I strongly recommond it. It's clear and I can easily get a lot information from it. From the movie, it mentioned me a lot about the histories I didn't pay attention before. When I saw the children in the Khmer Rouge kill people with indifferent eyes and the valley of death filled with skeletal, I felt appalled. A lot of people died and get hurt just because the US government set the wrong direction of the misile made me angry. Pran escapes succsesfully but he can't even save the person he wants to protect, the boy dies in front of him. Sydney get the "Journalist of the Year" award. It bases on the contribution of Pran,but Pran is under the control of Khmer Rouge. Lukily, Pran arrived the board of Thailand and he get together with Sydney again.

The moive obviously shows the global communication. The foreign reporters come to Combodia to cover the event. US's accidentally bombs Combodia. The war starts in the Vietnam extends to Combodia. These are all the facts of the global communication which are forms in different ways.
The movie is very objectively to describe the wrongdoings does by the government and reprodeuce the history. It can help us know more truth about the histories and how do people live in the war. The " Killing Fields" worths to see.