Prisoners Of The Killing Field Film Analysis
Ronald Joffe, the director the The Killing Fields, including various scenes of children in the film to create compassion in the viewer for the struggles Cambodians had to endure. Viewers of The Killing Field starts to feel compassion toward the Cambodians’ struggles as various scene of injured and frighten children were shown throughout the film. One scene that demonstrates this is the backbone injure of a little girl in the hospital. This just question that viewers of how will this girl be able to survive in the future if her back is always in constant pain or the idea of how will she survive if she will live in paralyzed state. Previously mention this would just break the heart of anyone who knows who see the struggle of the little girls
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The first scene that show innocent children that have to endure this bloodshed war was when the children was trying to persuade Sydney to buy the mercedes car logo. It just create compassion that the children are trying to sell product in order to get money since they seems to be in need of money for survival. It’s sad how these children are trying to survival on their own when the viewer knows that it’s logic for the parents/people to take care of lost children, but this shows how badly the situation is in Cambodian. Another scene is a bunch of innocent children waving good bye from the excitement of seeing an airplane for the first time. This demonstrates how innocently the kids are; not understanding the full situation that they are being left behind in the middle of the war with no one to take care. Viewers would be heartbroken by innocent act of the the children that have to suffer through this unfair war. Finally, the scene at the end of the film showing a boy holding another little boy in his arm just bring compassion toward the Cambodian people. This scene just make the viewer question, “Where’s their parent?” and “Who are going to take care of
The first scene that show innocent children that have to endure this bloodshed war was when the children was trying to persuade Sydney to buy the mercedes car logo. It just create compassion that the children are trying to sell product in order to get money since they seems to be in need of money for survival. It’s sad how these children are trying to survival on their own when the viewer knows that it’s logic for the parents/people to take care of lost children, but this shows how badly the situation is in Cambodian. Another scene is a bunch of innocent children waving good bye from the excitement of seeing an airplane for the first time. This demonstrates how innocently the kids are; not understanding the full situation that they are being left behind in the middle of the war with no one to take care. Viewers would be heartbroken by innocent act of the the children that have to suffer through this unfair war. Finally, the scene at the end of the film showing a boy holding another little boy in his arm just bring compassion toward the Cambodian people. This scene just make the viewer question, “Where’s their parent?” and “Who are going to take care of