Summary on The Killing FIelds

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2006)

The Killing Fields is a very powerful and moving story. Based on the true civil war in Cambodia, this mass genocide is depicted quite well through the interesting viewpoint of a couple of journalists. Some of the things that touched me as interesting in this movie is the way in which many views and atrocities were carried out to see how ridiculous and horrible this whole era was. One of the very interesting points carried out in this movie especially in the first few scenes and in the end of the movie is that of how ridiculous it was of the USA to bomb this area, and exactly what a horrible impact it had on the land. Over and over it is said again that these bombings allowed for this kind of chaos to erupt in Cambodia. In fact, in Sydney's speech, he says that all of these atrocities were brought on by the multi-million dollar bombings of Cambodia.
In carrying with this sort of protest against the mass bombings, the movie also did a wonderful job of depicting the violence and gore. Not to say that violence and gore makes a movie good, but in this case, it gets the message across quite well. From the blown off legs, to the dead bodies, to the fields of skeletons, the disgusting atrocities are represented well. Not only the gore, but also just the pure problems of the region are also well represented. The movie touches on the atrocities of landmines, to the evacuation of Phnom Pen, to the murderous methods of the Khmer Rouge, to the people they hate and reasons why the Khmer Rouge hate the upper class.
In conclusion, this movie, The Killing Fields, is a very good depiction of the atrocities in Cambodia during their civil war. In essence this movie was an outline for the major events in a few years time span. It covered everything so well from the US military action, to the evacuations, to landmines, to the actual killing fields and the genocide related to that. In studying The actual Killing Fields, this movie is quite good.