The Killing Fields (The Killing Fields , 1984) was the first appearance in the film address Roland Joffé, who two years later signed the critically acclaimed The Mission (The mission), with Jeremy Irons Robert De Niro and .
The story is based on the reconstruction of actual events written by Sydney Schanberg correspondent for The New York Times in Cambodia War - in the article The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia (January 20, 1980) . journalist He is responsible for narrating the friendship that creates with his Cambodian translator, her work in extreme conditions, and the disappearance of Dith Pran when delivered to the Khmer Rouge .
From this premise, Roland Joffe talks about working as a journalist in war and criticized the attitude of many who are in conflict an opportunity for adventure and vacation. For example, colleagues working as journalists embedded officers in the U.S. Army units that are not able to view and search the brutality of his government. Thus, the two main characters, Sydney ( Sam Waterston) and Dith (Haing S. Ngor ) - put all the means to expose their own stories of the forgotten, the civilians. In a supporting role, but also meritorious, John Malkovich figure-still had a short-film career as a photographer almost jinxed, because whenever something explodes near him.
In this first part of the film, the director tries to build a friendship between the two main characters, but does not succeed in creating conducive scenes. We can say that Roland Joffé show does not know what is behind two friends, or what makes it. The only progress in the story line that tries to show the union of Sydney and Dith refers to the attitude of the former with the latter: at first, the correspondent of the New York Times is arrogant, and treats the subject as a mere translator; then means that the work that the two are doing is journalism, the two sign chronicles from Phnom Penh (capital of Cambodia ). But the script of this section is a concatenation of events related to war: a hijacking, a terrorist attack. Even at a point in the film, to show that there is a strong friendship between Sydney and Dith, Cambodian recognizes that the American love for her family. Is represented through words and not action, is not credible, therefore. And perhaps due to a cut in the editing, but does not help believing the story.
The second part of the footage depicts the suffering Dith Pran slavery when captured by the Khmer Rouge, is a true story and useful that serves the viewer to see how a state tries to reprogram their disobedient citizens and set the "year zero". In this section, the director has more success at the time of counting, and balances the film to get a whole knew how good fight in the Oscar statuettes for three against the omnipresence of Amadeus (8).
Photo 2: Mary Ellen Mark
The story is based on the reconstruction of actual events written by Sydney Schanberg correspondent for The New York Times in Cambodia War - in the article The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia (January 20, 1980) . journalist He is responsible for narrating the friendship that creates with his Cambodian translator, her work in extreme conditions, and the disappearance of Dith Pran when delivered to the Khmer Rouge .
From this premise, Roland Joffe talks about working as a journalist in war and criticized the attitude of many who are in conflict an opportunity for adventure and vacation. For example, colleagues working as journalists embedded officers in the U.S. Army units that are not able to view and search the brutality of his government. Thus, the two main characters, Sydney ( Sam Waterston) and Dith (Haing S. Ngor ) - put all the means to expose their own stories of the forgotten, the civilians. In a supporting role, but also meritorious, John Malkovich figure-still had a short-film career as a photographer almost jinxed, because whenever something explodes near him.
In this first part of the film, the director tries to build a friendship between the two main characters, but does not succeed in creating conducive scenes. We can say that Roland Joffé show does not know what is behind two friends, or what makes it. The only progress in the story line that tries to show the union of Sydney and Dith refers to the attitude of the former with the latter: at first, the correspondent of the New York Times is arrogant, and treats the subject as a mere translator; then means that the work that the two are doing is journalism, the two sign chronicles from Phnom Penh (capital of Cambodia ). But the script of this section is a concatenation of events related to war: a hijacking, a terrorist attack. Even at a point in the film, to show that there is a strong friendship between Sydney and Dith, Cambodian recognizes that the American love for her family. Is represented through words and not action, is not credible, therefore. And perhaps due to a cut in the editing, but does not help believing the story.
The second part of the footage depicts the suffering Dith Pran slavery when captured by the Khmer Rouge, is a true story and useful that serves the viewer to see how a state tries to reprogram their disobedient citizens and set the "year zero". In this section, the director has more success at the time of counting, and balances the film to get a whole knew how good fight in the Oscar statuettes for three against the omnipresence of Amadeus (8).
Photo 2: Mary Ellen Mark
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