The Killing Fields (1984)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Roland Joffé

Guionista:

Bruce Robinson (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2 noviembre 1984 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Historia | Guerra

Frase comercial:

He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger... This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live.

Plot:

A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.

Plot Keywords:

Cambodia | New York Times | Khmer Rouge | New York | Airport

Premios:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 18 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Killing Friends

Reparto

Sam Waterston	...	Sydney Schanberg
Haing S. Ngor	...	Dith Pran (as Dr. Haing S Ngor)
John Malkovich	...	Alan 'Al' Rockoff
Julian Sands	...	John Swain
Craig T. Nelson	...	Major Reeves
Spalding Gray	...	U.S. Consul
Bill Paterson	...	Dr. MacEntire
Athol Fugard	...	Dr. Sundesval
Graham Kennedy	...	Dougal
Katherine Krapum Chey	...	Ser Moeum
Oliver Pierpaoli	...	Titony
Edward Entero Chey	...	Sarun
Tom Bird	...	U.S. Military Advisor
Monirak Sisowath	...	Phat - Khmer Rouge Leader
Lambool Dtangpaibool	...	Phat's Son

También conocida como:

Los gritos del silencio (Spain) [es]

Duración:

141 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Khmer

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | South Korea:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Netherlands:12 | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bangkok, Thailand

Compañía:

Enigma (First Casualty) Ltd.

Trivialidades:

Haing S. Ngor became the first Southeast Asian (and the first Buddhist) to win an Academy Award in an acting role.

Errores:

Continuidad: When listening to the news on the radio in the French consulate, a bottle of Champagne and a glass are standing on the piano. In the next cut, the bottle and the glass are gone. Another journalist then brings both items to the piano again.

Citas:

Dith Pran: [during the fall of Phnom Penh] "Sidney! No more fighting! No more war!"

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "House M.D.: Fetal Position (#3.17)" (2007)

Banda de Sonido:

Band On The Run

The Killing Friends

A must see movie...

The story about relationship and life, in decisive situations. And also a struggle towards guilts and torments.

Watching this movie, I'm thinking about how many sorrows and death brought by such horrifying ideology and minds. And how this things still happened to this moment.

One interesting plot, revealed how the west always want to tell the east what to do, and what they think best for them (which is in fact sometimes it's not). From the moment the military covered up their mistakes and their misjudgement about the country, to the day Sam Waterstone felt guilty about his demand for Dith Pran to stay with him and help his journalism work, while he also told Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) to get his family off country.

And the pattern also still happens to this moment.

Imagine...