Correctly understand the position of the film

Ibrahim 2022-10-24 07:01:42

In fact, we still have to correctly understand the position of this film.
In the film, there is no right or wrong position on both sides of the war. Regarding the massacre, both sides have. This is probably not the fault of either side, but the fault of the war, the fault of human nature, and the fault of cultural differences. The end of the film implies this, only cultural integration and tolerance are the only way to resolve conflicts.
At the same time, I even wonder whether US President Barack Obama has also seen this film. Yes, violence to violence can only bring more cruel violence, and replacing culture with culture can only bring more intense resentment.
Looking at Obama’s diplomacy now, he puts more emphasis on flexible diplomacy. Yes, when you want to use force to quell force, it will often bring greater human tragedies.

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Extended Reading

The Killing Fields quotes

  • Dith Pran: [during the fall of Phnom Penh] Sidney! No more fighting! No more war!

  • [first lines]

    Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times. It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.