This movie is stirring!

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2011)

This movie is adapted into a dramatized version of the real facts putting friendship, humanity in between the characters Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran. I think the Oscars, among other awards, were well deserved: the acting was good taking into account that it was Haing S. Ngor's debut performance and won an Academy Award for best supporting actor. Overall it does its best to show accurately all the historic facts during this war in Cambodia. It is not only remaking a reality but portraying the actual story of the survivor Dith Pran.
Other than that, I had the chills when Pran was planning on escaping the killing fields; the terror of this regime is graphically conveyed to the viewer, it shows the brutality of the regime and, despite it all, how friendship and compassion can grow so much during hard times.