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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Khmer Rouge were Maoist guerrillas trained by and supplied with weapons by North Vietnam. Despite this, once they take power, they immediately turn on their former ally for ideological and ancient nationalist reasons, as Vietnam prefers the Soviet model of communism over the Chinese model and has traditionally been Cambodia's historical oppressor. This backfires on them, since the Vietnamese simply elect to invade Cambodia and steamroll them into submission with their sheer military might once again, made possible due to Vietnam's extensive military experience over the past few decades coupled with the total societal regression and intellectual gutting of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge making their own military backwards, poorly armed, and poorly trained.
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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Khmer Rouge were Maoist guerrillas trained by and supplied with weapons by North Vietnam. Despite this, once they take power, they immediately turn on their former ally for ideological and ancient nationalist reasons, as Vietnam prefers the Soviet model of communism over the Chinese model and has traditionally been Cambodia's historical oppressor. This backfires on them, since the Vietnamese simply elect to invade Cambodia and steamroll them into submission with their sheer military might once again, made possible due to [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam's extensive military experience over the past few decades decades]] coupled with the total societal regression and intellectual gutting of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge making their own military backwards, poorly armed, and poorly trained.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Since the Khmer Rouge track and kill the educated, this is an important part of Dith Pran's survival. For example, he has to pretend that he does not understand foreign languages. It doesn't work, but luckily, Phat, the man who figures out his ruse, has become disillusioned with the Khmer Rouge regime and makes him his servant rather than sentencing him to death. Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the actor who plays his role, also lived in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge rule and he had to use the same tactic; this unfortunately led to his wife's [[DeathByChildbirth death during childbirth]] as he could not perform a Caesarean section for fear of being exposed as a former doctor, which would have ended in both of them being summarily executed anyway.
%%* PapaWolf: Pran, whose children are all in America, tries his hardest to protect Phat's son [[spoiler:who ends up getting killed anyway.]] %% This is not his son.
%%* PapaWolf: Pran, whose children are all in America, tries his hardest to protect Phat's son [[spoiler:who ends up getting killed anyway.]] %% This is not his son.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Since the Khmer Rouge track and kill the educated, this is an important part of Dith Pran's survival. For example, he has to [[LanguageFluencyDenial pretend that he does not understand foreign languages.languages]]. It doesn't work, but luckily, Phat, the man who figures out his ruse, has become disillusioned with the Khmer Rouge regime and makes him his servant rather than sentencing him to death. Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the actor who plays his role, also lived in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge rule and he had to use the same tactic; this unfortunately led to his wife's [[DeathByChildbirth death during childbirth]] as he could not perform a Caesarean section for fear of being exposed as a former doctor, which would have ended in both of them being summarily executed anyway.
%%* PapaWolf: Pran, whose children are all in America, tries his hardest to protect Phat's son [[spoiler:who ends up getting killedanyway.]] %% This is not his son.
%%* PapaWolf: Pran, whose children are all in America, tries his hardest to protect Phat's son [[spoiler:who ends up getting killed
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The Khmer Rouge is so brutal in its methods and extreme in its ideology that even other Communist regimes either regard them as enemies (Viet Cong) or want nothing to do with them.
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**The Khmer Rouge is so brutal in its methods and extreme in its ideology that even other Communist regimes either regard them as enemies (Viet Cong) or want nothing to do withthem.them.
**Inverted in the Khmer Rouge's treatment of the Soviet ambassador and his staff - they're kicked out of their embassy and forced to evacuate to the French embassy just like all other foreigners. Although communist, to the Khmer the Soviets were in the same category as Americans or western Europeans, and their communism insufficiently pure (i.e. in the Soviet Union, there was an elite "intelligentsia" of academics, scientists, engineers, writers, and artists, whereas those were the first people the Khmer Rouge killed)
**The Khmer Rouge is so brutal in its methods and extreme in its ideology that even other Communist regimes either regard them as enemies (Viet Cong) or want nothing to do with
**Inverted in the Khmer Rouge's treatment of the Soviet ambassador and his staff - they're kicked out of their embassy and forced to evacuate to the French embassy just like all other foreigners. Although communist, to the Khmer the Soviets were in the same category as Americans or western Europeans, and their communism insufficiently pure (i.e. in the Soviet Union, there was an elite "intelligentsia" of academics, scientists, engineers, writers, and artists, whereas those were the first people the Khmer Rouge killed)
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*CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even among the mass shootings and people being starved to death, one of the Khmer's modes of execution really stands out as grotesque. In one scene, a worker is falsely accused of stealing by a child soldier, and is suffocated with a plastic bag around his head. In a later scene, many of the bodies in the ditches that Pran falls into have plastic bags over their heads.
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*EveryoneHasStandards: The Khmer Rouge is so brutal in its methods and extreme in its ideology that even other Communist regimes either regard them as enemies (Viet Cong) or want nothing to do with them.
*FauxAffablyEvil: One of the Khmer commandos encourages those who were educated or middle class to come forward and confess their sins of oppression against the peasants and workers. He gives them a friendly hug and thanks them for their honesty - and then sends them off to be shot.
*FauxAffablyEvil: One of the Khmer commandos encourages those who were educated or middle class to come forward and confess their sins of oppression against the peasants and workers. He gives them a friendly hug and thanks them for their honesty - and then sends them off to be shot.
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*GoodIsNotNice: Al Rockoff has an extremely abrasive personality, but he clearly cares about Pran and does everything he can with his limited resources to save him. He's also not wrong in saying that Sydney is partly to blame for not doing more to encourage Pran to evacuate when he had a chance.
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*NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Khmer Rouge regime sees basic human decency as weakness and ideological impurity. Not surprisingly, Phat is unceremoniously shot for protesting against a gratuitous mass execution.
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*TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Socially engineered, and on a massive scale. Small children on brainwashed into cutting all ties with their parents and families and remade into loyal, robotic Khmer soldiers. Some of the most brutal scenes involve cold, emotionless child soldiers.
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%%* ForegoneConclusion: The answer to the third paragraph is yes.
* ForWantOfANail: If Al Rockoff had slightly better materials to work with while developing Pran's photo, Pran's fake passport would have gotten him out of the country to safety.
* ForWantOfANail: If Al Rockoff had slightly better materials to work with while developing Pran's photo, Pran's fake passport would have gotten him out of the country to safety.
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%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Sydney and Pran.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Since the Khmer Rouge track and kill the educated, this is an important part of Dith Pran's survival (for example, he has to pretend that he does not understand foreign languages). Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the actor who plays his role, also lived in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge rule and he had to use the same tactic; this unfortunately led to his wife's [[DeathByChildbirth death during childbirth]] as he could not perform a Caesarean section for fear of being exposed as a former doctor, which would have ended in both of them being summarily executed anyway.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Since the Khmer Rouge track and kill the educated, this is an important part of Dith Pran's survival (for survival. For example, he has to pretend that he does not understand foreign languages).languages. It doesn't work, but luckily, Phat, the man who figures out his ruse, has become disillusioned with the Khmer Rouge regime and makes him his servant rather than sentencing him to death. Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the actor who plays his role, also lived in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge rule and he had to use the same tactic; this unfortunately led to his wife's [[DeathByChildbirth death during childbirth]] as he could not perform a Caesarean section for fear of being exposed as a former doctor, which would have ended in both of them being summarily executed anyway.
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Overall, the film is a very moving and powerful portrait of one of the darkest eras of the 20th century. Spalding Gray, who plays the U.S. consul, earned worldwide fame as a raconteur with his relating of his experiences making the film in his one-man stage show ''Swimming to Cambodia'', later captured in Creator/JonathanDemme's 1987 film of that title.
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Overall, the film is a very moving and powerful portrait of one of the darkest eras of the 20th century. Spalding Gray, who plays the U.S. consul, earned worldwide fame as a raconteur with his relating of his experiences making the film in his one-man stage show ''Swimming to Cambodia'', later captured in Creator/JonathanDemme's 1987 film [[Film/SwimmingToCambodia film]] of that title.
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Over the following years, Schanberg -- now back in America -- wins a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for his coverage and keeps in contact with Pran's family while trying to discover Pran's whereabouts. Pran, meanwhile, endures the ultimate nightmare of the new government's [[ThePurge Killing Fields]]. Will Schanberg find Pran? Will Pran succeed in reaching out of hell?
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Over the following years, Schanberg -- now back in America -- wins a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for his coverage and keeps in contact with Pran's family while trying to discover Pran's whereabouts. Pran, meanwhile, endures [[SignatureScene bears witness to the ultimate nightmare full horror]] of the new government's [[ThePurge Killing Fields]]. Will Schanberg find Pran? Will And will Pran succeed in reaching out of hell?
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