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The Killing Fields
During the war in Cambodia, Sidney Schanberg is The New York Times reporter who assumes to cover the war with his local interpreter Dith Pran. Sidney and Dith friendship helped them to survive through the brutal events of the war. Sidney tried to help Dith by evacuating Dith and his family out of Cambodia but he failed and left Dith to face the death under this totalitarian regime.
11 June 1932, Middleburg, Cape Province, South Africa
15 July 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
26 March 1920, London, England, UK
3 June 1945, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
9 November 1920, New York, New York, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
22 March 1940, Samrong Young, Cambodia
15 February 1934, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
24 May 1953, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
24 March 1945, Berkshire, England, UK
September 16, 2015
[A] gripping, intelligent, provocative drama.January 09, 2015
Ngor's naturalistic and empathic portrayal of his character's desperate fight for survival is the key to this film's visceral power.October 23, 2004
The best moments are the human ones, the conversations, the exchanges of trust, the waiting around, the sudden fear, the quick bursts of violence, the desperation.January 13, 2014
Every scene of The Killing Fields (and every participant in its making) is in service of showing how abruptly a seemingly safe and vital individual can have everything essential stripped away.September 16, 2015
Few feature films have captured a nation's agony more dramatically than Roland Joffé's The Killing Fields.January 15, 2014
One of the great films from what proved to be a great year for cinema, The Killing Fields hasn't lost any of its power over the ensuing 30 years.April 09, 2008
The screen is swamped by a bathetic, self-preening sententiousness.September 16, 2015
If you see no more than one film a year, make this the one for 1984.May 20, 2003
The movie is diffuse and wandering. It's someone telling a long, interesting story who can't get to the point.April 09, 2008
The intent and outward trappings are all impressively in place, but at its heart there's something missing.August 25, 2008
It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century.February 09, 2006
The film's overall thrust -- angry, intelligent, compassionate -- makes this producer Puttnam's finest movie to date.