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1984 |
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WAR
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The harrowing true-life story of an American war correspondent, Sidney Schanberg (Sam Waterston), and his Cambodian translator, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) .
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| A great achievement for Producer David Puttnam, writer Bruce Robinson, and particularly first-time British director Roland Joffe: it's visually spectacular, splendidly acted and a film which really brings to life the horrors of Cambodia. One regrettable error of taste is the mawkish use of John Lennon's Imagine over the final moments. There are also structural problems in the narrative, arising from repeated half-hearted attempts to build the story around Schanberg, when all the most interesting things happen to Pran (an amazing, Oscar-winning screen debut by a doctor who himself escaped from Cambodia, Haing S. Ngor). But, quibbles aside, this is a magnificent, involving film. Chris Menges's cinematography deservedly won an Oscar, as did Jim Clark's editing. |
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, Haing S. Ngor 
, John Malkovich