The Killing Fields

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The questions refer to Roland Joffe’s The Killing Fields (1984) 1. How are Pran's Buddhist beliefs and values at the core of his character and a determiner of his interactions with everyone? (I do n... ot expect you to be religious scholars so your answer can be general. There is a lot of information on the net on Buddhism e.g. https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/buddhist-beliefs 2. Consider the three-part structure of the film. How would you characterize those sections? Why? Buddhism is among the largest faiths in the world which started in India 2,500 years ago with over five million believers. Buddhists trust that suffering is part of life and that insight can be attained via thinking, good behaviour, and spiritual and bodily effort. The Killing Fields, a 1984 British biographical drama directed by Roland Joffe, is a crucial movie used to describe the killing of three million of seven million Cambodian people. The movie describes the lives of two American journalists Sydney Schanberg and Cambodian Dith Pran. [Show More]

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