The Killing Fields is the story of the Cambodian genocide, but more than that, it is the story of the deep friendship between two reporters ^ one American, one Cambodian covering the war. Its themes are the ones you'd expect from such a movie...war as hell, friendship and human triumph through Pran. The destruction of war is masterfully rendered...distorted limbs and broken bodies enter the foreground as the camera pans and continue on into the background...one is left with the thought of the carnage that continued on off screen.
Some of the music choices were a bit...odd. I'm talking about some of the more techno/electronic background songs they used. They certainly were interesting but they were a bit out of place. However, as corny as it is, I did like the use of the Beatles's Imagine at the climactic ending scene. It's fitting, after all the awful things depicted in the movie, to use a song that dreams about the end of war, religion, prejudice and all the other ills of the world.
Truly a beautiful story.
Oh. And there is this army guy in the beginning and I was like "OMG! The guy from Coach!" As in the TV show coach from the 90s. Weird. I hadn't thought about that TV show in like, a decade.
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