Excellent film showing a great, but often forgotten part of the Southeastern Asia crisis

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2005)

Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields is an incredible film of fantastic historical accuracy. The film is a very gruesome, yet real portrayal of the events that took place in Cambodia in the early 1970's, ending with the re-encounter of photojournalist Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg.
The film tells the true story of American journalist Sydney Schanberg, who was The New York Times' correspondent in Vietnam, and later in Cambodia. While in Cambodia, he met with local photojournalist Dith Pran, who guided him through different sections of the capital Phnom Penh, and later into the depths of the jungle to where the Khmer Rouge was. The director does an excellent job of showing the difficulties both Pran and Sydney were faced with while trying to get the situation to be noticed in the United States. Both actors played their roles incredibly.
This film is most definitely a must see. It has the power of touching anyone who watches it, even if they have no knowledge of the topic. The images are extremely moving and they call for people to see and know what happened in 1970's Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime.