The Killing Fields - 2 November 1984
Director: Roland Joffé
Rating: ****
The film that I have just watched was an intense but interesting film which portrayed what it was like for a photojournalist in the Cambodian civil war. I found the outrageous arrogance of the American army sector to be a key factor within the film as it is showing that lives are just a source to succumb to the business of war.
This was such an informal film, but I would say that it could be improved in the sense of
bringing more of the civilians’ lives and feelings into the film, this would show the distress and fear within their lives during that horrific situation.
Bringing reality to the film was shown in the highs and lows of how he was brought up in the small town. When the war began the town was in distress, but then the streets filled with chanting, civilians celebrating ‘’the end of the war’’, this was only an illusion as the town quickly became over-run by the rebel forces, this reiterated the fear within the town and begun the rest of the blood bath.
Jackson McGrath