Talk:The Killing Fields (film)

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Let us work in the best reference and presentation of archaeological sites of Cambodia beyond Angkor like Sambor Prei Kuk, Angkor Borei (Takeo), etc.

Should disambiguate Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal and generally try to link up social conscience with right-wing values.

I'm looking for the best picture or any informations about the KAF's U-6 (Beaver). It seem that the KAF had 3 aircrafts. But in 1971, during the viet cong's sapper attack at the Pochentong Air Base,at least 1 Beaver was destroyed.In 1972 at leat 1 Beaver was refurbished with a new engine. http://www.khmerairforce.com/AAK-KAF/AVNK-AAK-KAF/Cambodia-Beaver-KAF.JPG

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Weaver, John; Kreitzer, Larry (2005). "The Killing Fields: The Extreme Limits of Friendship". In Fiddes, Paul; Clarke, Anthony (eds.). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Regent's Study Guides. Smyth & Helwys Publishing. ISBN 1573124583.

Plot summary

Deftdrummer: Nobody wants to do a plot summary on this sad movie huh? Understandable. Somebody did it and well done!--Danaide (talk) 14:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 10:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some questions?!

Yesterday I have had the first chance to see this film in german tv. The page is o.k.but there are some open questions,

dealing with shifting narrativ points of view. In our days there is a difference in style, telling political storys more documentary . - and in Killing fields appear somehow symbolic or double meaning story parts. Fading photos aren't a technical problem, like it is told on the first meaning. Floating time may be the second interpretative meaning and a philosophical dimenson opens.After his flight pran seems to rest and dream on a killing ground. Suddenly he is the leaders servant, in fiction, real. No bridge between these two events visible. Something cut off? Or should the fabulating reciepent work? Disguising himself as a kambodschan bubu his identy vanishes. On the first level and on the other hand he flies again, rescuing a child, which dies at an uncomprehensable point in the dschungel. He himself transforming by flying, in this child means buddhist stuff. The me line loops from episode to episode and the foreign friend is far away. Whose perspective is in?

There are many archimedic decisive points,where more than the action is told.

_and by doing so the real action looses weight ! Strange! Real/ deep and t(h)anks!--Danaide (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Distortion of history

"According to John Pilger, scenes which show the communist Vietnam People's Army liberating Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge and distributing food aid were cut from the film." - This is really pitiful. We should give credit where credit is due, and admit that it was Vietnam that stopped the madness and rescued these people, while the United States did not help. As long as the film omits this fact, it is not an accurate account of the events. Selerian (talk) 15:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

mmmh, as I see it the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia for their own designs. Not to give food aid or "end the madness", which they had to some extend in their own country as well. Now imagine the outcry, if the US invaded Cambodia. The lefties and liberals would have whined that "imperialist" America just "suppressed" a misunderstood Marxist visionary and liberator of the people. Btw. did they mention in the film that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were Marxists and radical egalitarians? --2003:5B:E547:1577:6CC4:B570:B912:387A (talk) 12:51, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Categories: Vietnam War films?

Is this a Vietnam War film? The first line in the Plot section reads,

"The film opens in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, May 1973. The Cambodian national army is fighting a civil war with the communist Khmer Rouge, a result of the Vietnam War overspilling that country’s borders."

So yes, I believe this film should be in the Vietnam War films category. ---Canstusdis (talk) 02:07, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Land mines

"Pran’s companion steps on a hidden land mine while holding the child. Though Pran pleads with the man to give him the child, the mine goes off, killing them both."

Meaning the film shows a man stepping on a mine, standing there for a while with his foot on it, then lifting his foot at which point it goes off? That's not how mines work - they go off when you step on them. I think I'll write a note to the director. PiCo (talk) 01:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No they don't,they explode when you release the pressure off the trigger in a reverse firing system. I had to make safe many land mines of various origins and everyone would trigger if stepped on, but exploded when the pressure released. So the scene in the film is accurate.90.244.51.17 (talk) 14:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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