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• Anvilicious: Though Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Admit it, when Sydney finally arrives at the refugee camp and meets Pran, and the two men hug while "Imagine" plays, it's a definitive example of this trope, even if you don't like the song.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The film's even more tragic now after Haing S. Ngor, who survived the Khmer Rouge and played a fellow survivor, was gunned down by punks in an L.A. parking garage. And why? They wanted the locket he swore never to part with--a locket that held the picture of his wife, who had been killed by the Khmer Rouge.
• Hell Is That Noise: About a third of the way through, there's a sequence of helicopters flying accompanied by... well, we won't call it music.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Summary executions. Forced labour. Child soldiers. Mass graves. The most terrifying thing about all this is that it all actually happened.
• Tear Jerker: Just about everything that happens to the Cambodian people, especially the wounded civilians. And the children.