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Was Al Rockoff out of order...

posted 16 years ago by The-Last-Prydonian
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...when he harshly criticised Sydney. He seemed to think he wasn't doing enough to help find his friend who was still stuck in Cambodia. Sydney seemed to think he should have been spending less time courting the press and more time trying to find him. But wasn't all that Sydney was doing was trying to highlight the atrocities that were being commited over there so people would speak up so the government ot the uN or somebody would get up off their arses and do more to help the men, woman and children that were being persecuted, enslaved, tortured and killed over there. Seemed to me that Sydney did genuinely care but that his biterness was sorely misplaced. What does anyone else think?

Btw A great film which covers a subject which in some shape or form is still happening to this very day in various parts of the world.

[–] ikinmoore 16 years ago

I don't think Al Rockoff did harshly criticised Sydney. Sydney could have got him out before the fall of Cambodia but loyalty made Dith Pran stay put. Sydney could have ordered him to go with his family but he did not do this.

Sydney wasn't bitter, he was feeling very guilty with himself for leaving Dith in Cambodia.

These atrocities, as you quite rightly state, still happens in this day and age. Humans are such selfish creatures and Sydney was just like that until he reliesed what he had done then the feeling of guilt was with him for five years.

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