The Killing Fields was a powerful movie of this place and time, made just 5 years or so after the actual fall of the Khmer Rouge. The movie tells the story of Dith Pran (played to perfection by the late Haing S. Ngor, a doctor who also had lived through the real events), his friendship with an American journalist, and his attempts to navigate and survive through the brutal reality surrounding him. The soundtrack to the film was composed by Mike Oldfield. Composing music that can sufficiently and appropriately match up with such raw content must be an exhausting task, and I have to say I respect Oldfield just for rising to the challenge. As it turns out, the process of composing this soundtrack would prove difficult for him in other ways, particularly in having to meet the needs of director Roland Joffé.
