John Cazale was literally dying from lung cancer during filming of "The Deer Hunter". In fact, he passed away before the film was finished. They shot all his scenes first, so his role in the film is complete. He was romantically involved with Meryl Streep at the time, and she took the role to be with him in his final days.

Nick's arm was full of track marks, he was mentally scarred by the war and was using heroin to numb the pain. When Nick realizes Mike and the trees and mentions "one shot" it is a call back to Mike saying it was the most humane way to take a deer, so it doesn't suffer. Nick knew he was dead inside and knew the only way out of the pain he was in, to end his suffering was one shot.

Saw this Christmas Eve, 44 years ago tonight. The war had only been over a few years and families like mine were still dealing with it. The final scene when they were singing, the entire standing room only movie audience began crying even loud sobbing. Never forget it. It was a different time.

Al Pacino has said he learnt more about acting by watching and acting with John Cazale above anybody else, he played Stan in this movie, his last roll. Great actor that died way to young.

I'll go out on a limb and say that this is what a "horror" movie really is. Not the fun kind with ghosts and monsters, but true horror in its purest sense. Such a moving film about what war does not just to people, but to families and even entire small towns.

One of the best American films ever. Unconventional, organic, real-life story telling.

Not many people talk about George Dzundza's performance who played John the bar owner. I thought he added a lot to the impact of loss.

When this movie came out in 1978 I was 21 years old! Very last troops were taken out of Vietnam in 1975 which was the year that I graduated high school!! All throughout High School the only thought that most boys had was "are we going to go to college or we going to go to the military?" I saw this film in the theater and literally walked out shaking because it affected me to such a deep degree!!

One of the subtle things that's set up early in the movie is that Nick is a compulsive gambler. Combined with the trauma of what he went through, he can't stop playing.

It was about how Deniro "the deer hunter" is changed by the war. He was a hunter but a skilled and respectful hunter, "one shot" to kill a deer so it doesn't suffer. At the end he appreciated the beauty of the buck and couldn't kill it. This movie is so deep you could talk about its theme's and meanings all day. Your next DeNiro movie should be "Taxi Driver". Pure and raw. DeNiro at his finest.

A very dark film but undeniably important. That Russian roulette scene is, by far, one of the most intense, suspenseful and well acted scenes ever put into a film.

A lot of this movie was filmed in my home town of Weirton WV. It was home to Weirton Steel and a very diverse community - Irish, Italian, Russian, Czech. Polish, Serb, Greek, many others.

This movie and "Come and See" are probably the two most unsettling war movies I've ever seen. Both are masterpieces.

my family were extras in the church scene. my grandfather had to leave because he looked so much like Al Pacino and the director didn't want anyone to think he was in it 😂

One of the very best war movies ever made. Writing, directing, acting, photography, pacing, everything is on point. A hard to watch masterpiece.

The location is the area of Ohio River valley around West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania - where my dad grew up. There were a lot of Polish and Russian immigrants there who worked in industry. My dad was from a Polish family from that area.

I don't know if you guys have ever watched "Heat" but I highly recommend it and I'm sure others can agree that it would be a great movie to react to!

I went into the theater to watch this when it first came out thinking I was going to see a film about wildlife. It certainly ended up a different experience. With the war only having been over for a few years at the time the atmosphere in the theater was very raw feeling. How many friend/family groups went through similar changes.. Five Academy Awards went to this film. Well deserved IMHO.

This is one of the best movies I never want to see again. If that makes sense.

A lot of Russian immigrants post WW2 were very familiar with steel work. Russia had a massive call for building tanks and weapons during the war...So they often ended up in towns with big steel mills, like western/central PA in this movie. I'm a PA native, my dad is Russian, and his parents were WW2 refugees. His father was a welder and metalworker.

“One shot...” For anyone who knows the meaning of this line... it will break your heart.

This movie is a masterpiece by Michael Cimino. Shows how the horror of war take a toll of the human soul. The cast is fantastic, what a bunch of young gifted actors to portrait such dark theme.

The Deer Hunter is actually a movie about a Russian wedding that gets out of hand. Actually, every Russian wedding gets out of hand. It's probably the most dangerous party in the world after the running of the bulls in Pamplona.

That beautiful guitar piece "Cavatina" is a jarring contrast to 'man's inhumanity to his fellow man' theme. It reminds us that there is still beauty and hope in this world of ours🥲

Michael wasn't "gambling" on the game; he just was so traumatized, although he controlled it, that he was drawn to looking at it. One thing people may not know is that Meryl Streep was in a relationship with John Cazale, who was dying of lung cancer while this movie was being shot, and in fact he died before it was finished. There's a clip on you tube about how she was with him every moment of his illness, in the hospital and at his death. This is a movie often analyzed in film classes back in the day; it's a masterpiece.

An underrated scene is when Mike, refuses to lend his boots to Stan on the hunt. It was for me foreshadowing, that he was the one who would survive, due to his principles and being the organized level headed one of the gang.

Deniro didnt fall he jumped back in in the most heroic moment ever caught on film....also walken crying and laughing in the roulette game is the greatest piece of acting of all time .

John Cazale, who played Freddy in GODFATHER & GODFATHER PART 2, was his last film on DEER HUNTER. He was sick (cancer), Meryl Streep was this fiancée and that's why she is in the movie to take care of him. He died after the shooting..

Great reaction. A great deal of this film was shot in my hometown of Mingo Junction, Ohio when I was just a boy. I remember going downtown with my grandfather to watch them film the sene where Deniro and Streep walk down the street after he gets back from the war. It’s one of my earliest memories. The mill shown throughout the film is the one my father and grandfather worked their whole lives in. The film does an amazing job of capturing that place and that time. For me, it’s strange, because the film is absolutely thick with meaning, but when I watch it all I see is a love letter not just to my hometown, but my hometown when I was a boy. It’s surreal.

Christopher Walken started his career as a back-up dancer on Broadway. After years of being a dancer, he slowly began to have lines in plays, and then became a movie actor. Thus, Chris shows his dance moves here. Some people become addicted to adrenalin and being in danger - you never feel as alive as when you are facing death and cheat death. There was a dark time in my life when I was depressed and traumatized and didn’t really feel anything - I took stupid physical safety chances in order to feel something ( and I was probably a bit suicidal). I got better, but I can relate how a traumatized person can go back to danger.

Love this movie. When my brother came back from Afghanistan he never truly came back

The real life footage mixed in with the movie when DeNiro goes back to find Walken is from the Last Helicopter leaving the US Embassy during the Fall of Saigon, telling us that DeNiro went back INTO Saigon when America left the place for good...

In college we would play: “Beer Hunter.” Shake a beer, in with ones that weren’t and take turns opening one after another by your head.

The Green Beret isn’t at the wedding, he’s just having a beer at the local VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Hall bar. It’s just that the VFW Hall banquet room immediately next door has been rented out for the Russian wedding on the same day.

There's a lot of this movie that I really appreciate and like. The acting of the mains, including Cazale (dying of cancer), Walken, and Meryl Streep. But my dad was a Vietnam War vet, and the first time I watched this movie was a scheduled screening, and before I went to it I told him what I'd be watching. And he told me "just watch how that movie portrays the Vietnamese whose country we were in." My father, who'd seen Vietnam and what the War did to the civilians, was *offended* by this film which, frankly, doesn't do much other than show them as either monsters (in the Russian Roulette underworld) or as faceless adversaries gunned down by Bobby DeNiro. This movie is about the experience of poor Americans that got shipped off to 'Nam, and it's got a lot of sympathy for them. Rightly so. But I wish, as my Vietnam Vet dad did, that it spared some more sympathy for the Vietnamese themselves.

Epic but really dark. The scene in the motel room when he returns from Vietnam was both beautiful but incredibly sad.

That was a steel mill in Pennsylvania (Actually nearby Ohio, but it's Pennsylvania in the movie). The first part of "The Deer Hunter" depicts the now extinct working class American culture, when America had it's own steel industry.

I love the way you guys discuss the film afterwards, like you're debriefing. I feel you especially need to do this with this kind of film otherwise it'll haunt you🙂 I saw this with my parents as a kid. They're not big talkers😲

They spend so much time with the friends, just getting to know them, living with them. When all the shit goes down, it has real impact.

The most impactful part of this movie for me personally is when Mike stops his friend from pointing the handgun at his friend. Anybody that thinks playing with guns is fun should watch this movie. You cannot explain it. You have to feel it.

The Green Beret was at the wedding cause the wedding was held at the VFW. And that's where Vets hang out to drink. It's like a bar for Veterans.

Great movie and great acting writing directing soundtrack etc , John Savage one of my all time favorite actors thanks y’all

It's crazy, Deer Hunter's 15 minutes in Vietnam sticks in your head more than the whole second half of "Full Metal Jacket". (and I'm usually on Team Kubrick!) Super sad movie. De Niro said in an interview that the scene where he has to go visit Steven in the hospital was one of the most difficult scenes he ever had to shoot. I found that interesting, I would never have thought that unless he had said it in the interview, he even chokes up just talking about it, years after the fact. (Also, that's really him and John Savage hanging from the helicopter, he talked about how dangerous those stunts were. ) A sad movie, but a great reaction to it! And now you've got full bragging rights: you've seen "The Deer Hunter"! :D

20:11, now we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief. They are going home.

The scene in the POW camp where they're forced to play the Russian roulette is one of the most powerful scene in cinema. Much imitated and homaged, especially in Meet the Feebles by Peter Jackson and Bullet in the Head by John Woo. Great acting by Walken but De Niro in it is simply phenomenal.

This and Schindler’s List are both so intense I can never rewatch them. Leaving a war zone, as we recently saw in Afghanistan, is absolute chaos. There are no clear cut solutions.

To quote a review I once saw "the wedding scene was so long I started to feel guilty that I hadn't brought a gift".

You wondered where it takes place. The hometown scenes are set in the rust belt. If I recall correctly, they were filmed in Pennsylvania. The hunting scene that Samantha said was so pretty was filmed about 50 miles from my home in Montana. Director Michael Cimino also filmed Heaven's Gate nearby. The area is probably most know to filmgoers for The opening scene in Kubrick's The Shining. Love to have you see it sometime.

Everyone should take a look at John Cazale's IMDB page. He was in five movies and the worst one was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, co-starred Gene Hackman and Harrison Ford, and was nominated for three academy awards. Amazing career, would have loved to see him continue.

love this film, it shows all the transitions people go through and the impact on lives from a war. there is an adjustment veterans halve to make when returning from a deployment, which is the timeline gap in re-entering people lives back at home. people at home are living their lives while vets are deployed and upon return there is difference in the timeline of the vet's memories and the people at home in their daily lives. even further, saying what a vet remembers as yesterday happen months or years in the past for the people at home, vets get tripped up by that becuase in their mind this is a fresh memory.

Such a great, and disturbing, movie. It scarred me as a kid (they used to show it on TV). Shame more people don't react to it.

Apparently the spit into Robert's face was not scripted and the reaction was real as Christopher improvised and it took Robert a moment or two to go with it or say cut. What you see is the one take of that scene.

I remember driving on the old US 40 "National Road" thru PA and coming across a town on the Monongahela River, with abandoned steel mills on the riverside and an old bridge with metal support beams spanning across it. It reminded me of the town in the movie. You could see "Russian" church steeples poking up around the town. Brownsville was the town name. The movie filmed in different locations but used Clairton, PA as the main location. The town is on the same river further upstream from Brownsville. The Eastern European Orthodox influence in this area of PA is all over these small towns. The movie does a good job of grounding you in that culture and lifestyle of 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant families.

"That's one of the craziest wedding I've ever seen" Well, apparently you've never been to an Irish wedding then... 😅

This is one of the most structured and thought out movies in american cinematography, following greek tragedies in some way. To call it chaotic is isane. The cinematography by the hungarian refugee Vilmos Zsigmond is simply breathtaking and timeless. It is not about the war but about the heraclician notion that you cannot step into the same river again. Time is flightfull, it passes, it will never come back and things will never be the same. Events shape us and change us forever. It is one of the most melancholich american movies. Both in image and in message. Amazing that it was ever made in hollywood. You concentrate on the plot way too much which is not the most important thing here.

The performances in this movie are remarkable and this script is one of the most gutting to have ever seen its way through production.

Glad you noticed Fredo from The Godfather = John Cazale only ever starred in 5 films, all nominated for Best Picture Oscars: Godfather 1 & 2, Dog Day Afternoon, The Conversation and The Deer Hunter. He was, unfortunately, terminally ill during filming of Deer Hunter, and asked De Niro to use a live round in the gun pointing confrontation scene to help him. Great, great actor.

The film had a devastating impact at the time. People in America were screaming, crying and fainting. We have to remember the film only came out three years after the Vietnam war ended and the country was still going through a kind of nervous breakdown over the war - from the anti-war protests from the late 60s to the mid 70s to the fallout that families all over America were dealing with, indeed characters like Michael, Nick and Stevie. Apocalypse Now is probably the most brilliant war film ever made but I would choose The Deer Hunter myself. What it has to say about the effects of war on ordinary people and communities is the ultimate anti-war statement. At the time, Americans still believed (perhaps based on the memory of saving the world in World War 2) that Vietnam was a heroic war for America in the fight against communism and the assertion of America's place in the world. This film beautifully articulates the destruction of that myth.

You need to check out these 3 movies: the killing fields, the color purple and the mission from 1986. You will loved all 3 of these films. The color purple Steve spielberg was Rob of an Oscar for directing this film.

I first saw this on late night tv when I was still living at home. It didn’t start until 11.00pm and as I watched it I couldn’t not watch it. I finally got to bed at 3.00am. I loved the locations and the realism. I’ve never forgotten that final game of Russian Roulette either. At the wedding the soldier at the bar was a look into the future at what would become of Robert DeNiro’s character. The town was set in one of the many Pennsylvanian steel towns. Ultimately it’s about how the Vietnam war ripped the town and the characters lives apart. This is one of those films that I’ve watched multiple times. I’ve never grown tired of it. One shot…

This was one of my dads (Vietnam vet) favorite movies . If you want to see a good Christopher Walken movie check out True Romance...it even has a young Brad Pitt in it.

The most traumatizing and amazing film. I remember seeing this on video in the 80's. The fun and chaos of the opening wedding was so contrasted by the horror and degradation that follows. The cast is just A+ all around. I screamed, I cried, I just felt drained by then end of this film.

One of the darkest, most relevant war movies of all time.

I grew up going to these weddings and receptions in Pittsburgh at the fire hall, American Legion Hall, or VFW. The steel mill towns in PA, Ohio, and WV were very close knit, but diverse neighborhoods. I think one of the important points that you may have missed is your friends then remain your friends now 50 years later.

This is my dad's favorite film of all time and he had me watch this insane shit when I was a little kid. I felt like I went through the war but I appreciated it because this is a masterclass of acting and cinema.

I know I am two years late on my comment. I was several years too young to be drafted to Nam. But I knew a number of older neighbors that were. We grew up in a relatively close knit community than at age 18 after several months of training they were thrown into the nightmare of Nam. The long wedding scene developed the characters and showed a realistic yet imperfect reality of working class life. Everyone I knew came back very changed. Very much an anti-war movie. Yet DeNiro’s Michael is both wonderfully human and incredibly strong - a great characterization of the American hero. This movie is layered with allegory and we all need time to process it.

This was released only a few years after the Vietnam war ended. When this was first shown on TV the number of suicides by self-inflicted gunshot went up sharply. A extremely good movie but also deeply depressing.

Here's a list of Michael Cimino movies: Heavens Gate, epic western. Year Of The Dragon, action thriller. The Sicilian, action crime epic. Desperate Hours, crime thriller. Sunchaser, his last film. Road drama.

My father always said this captured the whole feel of a working class city and Vietnam. He used to also say, “what’s the difference between a Russian wedding and a Russian wake? One less drinker.”

My father came back from Vietnam in 1968. He never spoke of what happened there and drank himself into an early grave at 47. These kids that went to war came back broken... and this movie has those moments where you realize how fu*ked up things were there at the time. I have a feeling if our veterans got the care they needed at the time, there wouldn't be so many tragic stories with those returned. I posted this on another reaction vid to this movie, but I think to re-post it here can only spread the word.

Words fail me about this movie. I’ve seen it a dozen times or so. Gets me every time Thank you for giving such a careful and thoughtful review of this unique piece of art.

Chuck Aspegren, who played Axel, was not an actor; he was the foreman at an East Chicago steelworks visited early in pre-production by De Niro and Cimino. They were so impressed with him that they offered him the role. This is the only film he was in.

OMG YOU TWO!!! THIS REACTION VIDEO WAS SO INTENSE!!! Those Russian Roulette Scenes are one of the most intense in cinematic history!!! It's been some time since I've seen this movie & watching your reaction video was such a gut punch reminder of what this film was!!! TBR Schmitt, your view is spot on with Mike taking the whole experience as "I'm already dead from this. It's time to move on." While Samantha's view of "Steve & Nick already losing hope over all of this" rang true. WOW YOU TWO, THIS REACTION VIDEO WAS EPIC!!! Both of you captured every essence of what this film is!!! Well done!!! Keep it going!!!

I believe you guys are the first reactors to watch this movie. Maybe you'll start a trend for others to follow. The 1970's were an era that saw people playing Russian Roulette for kicks and sometimes money, likely heavily influenced by this movie. I've seen this movie several times, even owned a copy long ago. I can't say it's a war movie though. It's more about friends being able to cope with civilian life after seeing the atrocities of war.

That war was on another level of horror, from all I've read and heard. Two of my uncles, Pete and Tommy, were both sent to Vietnam. Tommy was sent home, due to a death in the family. Pete stayed. He made it back home though, but according to my Aunt Debi he wasn't the same person. God knows what he went through there, but he was broken from it. He shot himself on a beach in Florida in 1998. He was 45 years old.

That Russian Roulette scene is one of the greatest acting moments in cinema

The Sgt in uniform wasn't a guest at the wedding, he was just having a beer at the American Legion where the reception was being held

My friend who was a Green Beret in Vietnam is just starting to be able to talk about his time in country. He said it took him years when he came home to not feel the need to carry a weapon. And I still can't wake him from a sound sleep because his protective reflexes are so ingrained. Vietnam was just a disaster for a whole generation. That's what this movie shows.

Parts of this was filmed in Mingo Junction, Ohio, Welsh's Bar. The reception was in Tremont, a section of Cleveland.

I have been waiting so long for someone to react to this movie. It is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time.

John Cazele who played “Stan” in this movie (and “Fredo” in godfather) was dying of cancer and actually finished his parts first but died before the movie was finished.. he was actually dating Meryl Streep at the time.. I found this article extremely touching: “During the filming, John was growing sicker and sicker, and the producers tried everything they could to nullify his contract and replace him. But Robert De Niro and Meryl threatened to walk away if they did, so in the end, Cimino rearranged his schedule and shot John’s scenes first. To keep up with the growing medical bills, Meryl took up a role for a nine-hour television drama, Holocaust, right after she was finished with her scenes in The Deer Hunter. Unfortunately, the series was mostly shot on real-life locations in a concentration camp in Austria so she had to leave for a while. “I was going crazy, John was sick, and I wanted to be with him,” she said later.” "While she was away for two months, his old friend Al Pacino took him to radiation treatments and De Niro took care of the insurance policy. Just as she got back and things looked as if they were going to be fine, John was once again admitted to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and on 12th of March, 1978, a doctor woke her up early in the morning with the words, “He’s gone.” Reports say that Streep was so reluctant to let him go, that she threw herself on his chest, begging him to wake up. And as she was sobbing over him, he opened his eyes for a brief second and with the weak voice of a dying man, said: “It’s all right, Meryl, it’s all right,” after which he left this world for good."

First time watching y'all. Movie is very dark but beautiful. Great acting! Cazale was married to Streep and was in 3 movies that awarded best picture. Correction, he was in 5 films over 7yrs....all were nominated for best picture

My favorite movie of all time.

Schmitt, Mrs. Schmitt, Just so you know (sure you found out later), this film is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition, I'm pretty sure the crowns you saw in the wedding, are part of the ceremony in a traditional, Catholic wedding. Perhaps also in Eastern European cultures, which I'm pretty sure is the case; such as with Nick (Christopher Walken) who's character is Russian.

I remember seeing this when it first came out as a teenager. When I was in grade school in Southern California I remember surfers leaving their surfboards on my mom‘s covered porch and heading off to Vietnam. You’re right, One of the most intense and difficult movies ever made. These characters struggled with what many people do, excepting the obvious truth that God exists, but stiff arming God as if there are never going to be consequences.

The last scene between De Niro and Walken has to be one of the most gut wrenching scenes I've ever seen.

Not sure if you missed it or not but I think one big reason Nick didn’t recognize Mike at the end scene on the Russian roulette den was because he was high on heroin, there a shot of Nick’s arm when they’re playing the game with needle track marks

Also have to say that I really enjoyed the discussion the two of you had about the film afterwards. It is hard to summarize and I've never forgotten that experience of actually seeing it "at the movies" and then walking out in the cool night air. It was something. Cheers 🍺

_"He was literally tortured with this; why would he play this now?"_ I think that's one reason why the movie opens up on the steel mill. Such is life. Or such were these characters' lives in their own ways, some chaos and tension and sacrifice in everything they grew up with. They thought their being able to conquer the everyday rough and tumble parts of living in blue collar Pennsylvania prepared them for anything else. The conquering of nature like they were ancient Slavic heroes. Everything was a game, everything was reckless, everything was there for the taking. Until it wasn't. But they kept going back to it, because that's what defined them, even when it stood to either elude or kill them. Like you said, once something triggered that part of them, they were never able to leave. Maybe it was or wasn't the intent, but the movie's sort of a metaphor for when addiction is mixed with a sense of comfort or home, with anything. Even abuse.

For me, a flawless movie. Have watched it many times and it touches me with sadness, everytime. Incredible acting ..

You’re gonna love MIDNIGHT RUN. Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin

I sat through this twice in a row at the theater when it was new (when you could still do that). The second time was mainly to experience the audience's reaction.

My aunt, uncle, and a few cousins lived next door when I was younger. We'd always get the whole family together for holiday. It was usually a normal gathering until that one year my uncle decided that we should all gather round and watch The Deer Hunter, everybody, children included, who at the time were no older than 12 or 13. The most disturbing Christmas Eve ever.

This movie haunts you; it lingers, corrupts, and stains like war.

I remember seeing this in the theatre when it first came out. At the end the theatre was in complete silence. I mean you could hear a pin drop silence. Everyone was emotionally overwhelmed and stunned. I was just a bit too young to be eligible for the draft for the war but I had relatives who served and older brothers of friends who served. So this movie hit all of us who lived through that period hard because we could so relate to it.

Amazing reaction, as usual, but here are some things you two should know: 1) Michael Cimino is one of the most misunderstood and undervalued American filmmakers of the 20th century who was an important figure in the ''New Hollywood'' era of American cinema in the 70s, who made the most seemingly innocuous and small elements of American life grand and epic in relation to the overall stories he told in his films. With that said, 'Heaven's Gate,' his infamous 1980 flop, is as intimately epic (as well as emotionally powerful) as this film, if not more. 2) You should also watch his disgustingly underrated 1987 crime gem 'Year of the Dragon' for even further proof of his brilliance. 3) 'Cavatina,' the main guitar theme by John Williams, is one of the most beautiful pieces of music you'll ever know (next to the like of Pat Metheny's equally gorgeous 'Always and Forever). 4) De Niro and Walken's final confrontation is one of the most poignantly melancholic sequences in cinema. That is all.

I've got a mate, his Dad (Australian soldier) went to Vietnam, I've known them both for at least 20 years. His old man was the most unstable, violent man I ever met, the slightest excuse would set him fighting. He finally started counselling 8 years ago and its an ongoing thing. He is the way he is because of his experiences in Vietnam. Fucks people up.

Probably the best Vietnam-war movie. The scene in the beginning when they seem like a bunch of guys drinking beer, running naked, hunting and then mesmerized by the piano is to remind you they are not just "guys partying", they are a bunch of boys that grew up together and they know it will probably be the last day they are all reunited and happy. This movie was very controversial when it first was on theaters, because if you read between the lines it is very strongly criticizing the US and the Vietnam War. Don't forget it was made very very soon after the end of the war, people were not ready. Also the whole story is essentially about Russian immigrants (the movie came out in the middle of the Cold War) with a hint of xenophobia toward them ("is it Russian?" "no, it's American") getting wrecked by an American war and singing God Bless America at the end.

The score is key to understanding the theme. From the very opening the melody suggests a hopeful, optimistic comfort in uncertainty. At the very end this same melody returns almost as a beautiful bookend

you absolutely must see the killing fields of 1984 it's a true story