The Killing Fields - (1984) First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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Every time I go into an airport in my head I hear that "information... information" with a Cambodian accent -- I'd totally forgotten it came from that airport scene in the beginning of this movie.
Thank you so much for reacting to this movie (honestly I didn't think it would be your choice from the various options on the list...I'm very happily surprised!). It's not the usual type of movie I would normally suggest (or even like) but it won Academy awards and junk, and it was important to my 13 year old self, so i put it on the list. Generally I try to provide variety in my choices ...hope I didn't go to far with this one cuz, as you mentioned, it is brutal for most of the movie despite the happy ending. Hope you aren't regretting it too much?
You never go too far ArcAngel! I love your recommendations! 😁 This was really good and informative!
@greekguyreacts1376 awww ...thank you so much for saying that! Next month I will focus on things which aren't so obscure. This reaction really meant a lot -- you helped me process some grief which I didn't even realize I was supressing. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤
The actor who played Dith Pran was a doctor who was actually another survivor of the killing fields. His name was
Haing Somnang Ngor. Ngor moved to Los Angeles and lived there until 1996 when he was gunned down. His murder was first identified as a robbery but the situation is suspicious as the killers left Ngor's Mercedes and more than $3000 cash which was on his person.
His family believed the murder was connected to the Khmer Rouge because Ngor had been speaking out about the atrocities still happening in Cambodia.
That's actually so sad 🙁
@greekguyreacts1376 right?? 😢 I sent you an email with copy/pasted text from a news article I found from 1996 which gives more information. Also of interest, the real Dith Pran lived out his natural life in the United States with his family until 2008 when he passed of pancreatic cancer at 65. RIP to both Pran and Ngor.
So creepy how the Khmer Rouge identified "educated" people to kill. Asking who was a doctor or a professor, if you spoke another language, wore glasses, lived in a city...yikes! Did you catch that the guy (not sure of his name but he was a Khmer Rouge officer -- the guy who Pran was babysitting for) he was tossing out French and English words randomly sometimes to see if Pran would accidentally react. 😬
Yep, i caught that!
Can you imagine if Pran hadn't survived? Sydney would have felt guilty forever -- he pressured Pran too much early on to stay in Cambodia. Truly, I never would have recommended this movie if it hadn't had a happy ending -- a sad ending would have been too much after all the gritty wartime events.
Yeah i couldn't imagine living with that , especially having to take care of his family after he is gone...
I've never even heard of this movie. Hmmmm
I wasn't aware of the movie or the events neither but it definitely peaked my interest
@@greekguyreacts1376 I'm gonna have to look for this one
Yay Heather! You gotta tell me what you think after you see it! 😀
@@--ArcAngel-- well I'm intrigued enough from what I saw from this to watch. Thank you for suggesting it
@Heather61776 oh gosh...my sincere pleasure! It's quite brutal but also uplifting, and it's so educational. I literally had NO clue about any of this before I saw it. There's something satisfying about watching a good movie and coming away knowing you also genuinely learned something. Kinda like Patch Adams! I loved that suggestion -- I had no idea it was a true story. So thank you for that! ❤
If you make a movie like this in the 1970s, I think you have to use the song "Imagine" at the end. It's a rule. ❤
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MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978) made by Alan Parker_ Music made by Giorgio Moroder_ based on th true story of Billy Hayes.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE (1983)_ with David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto who composed the music.
Cambodia stopped being a French colony in 1954
Why the Khmer Rouge wouldn't let the enslaved workers grow their own crops? I don't understand that part.
Maybe because they didn't want the common people to feel empowered in any way. They would only be fed when the Khmer Rouge wanted them too , what they wanted them too and at whatever prices. Being able to feed yourself and grow your own food is a sign of independence and they CLEARLY didn't want any of that going around.
Yeah that makes sense. It just seemed counter productive cuz the workers were starving ...but I guess the Khmer Rouge didn't care if the workers died anyway. Maybe it was a low key goal to work them to death anyhow.
So the movie ends with a song that glorifies communism.