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| Topic Started: Apr 20 2014, 12:57 PM (75 Views) | |
| Alli | Apr 20 2014, 12:57 PM Post #1 |
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Watched what I believe so far this year the best movie I have seen, It is based on a true story. Here is a brief synopsis Based on his best-selling memoir, The film tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him, and his haunting past.(wiki) It is such an emotional, brutal film you are angry and in tears the next. Colin Firth plays Eric Lomax incredible acting.. Hiroyuki Sanada, plays Nagase his captor who he meets years later after years of painful nightmares, fears and trying to move past but finds it impossible. Nicole Kidman plays his wife she was beautiful sensitive to his fears.. beautifully done...... This is definitely a 023 Watch the trailer.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrkKXoEJbM Edited by Alli, Apr 20 2014, 01:11 PM.
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| Kahu | Apr 20 2014, 01:45 PM Post #2 |
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Not a nice story at all .... In the Burmese town of Thanbyuzayat, the railway men can rest at last. The tombstones of 3,149 Commonwealth soldiers are laid out in a semi-circle, beginning with the As: Luke Abbott, Royal Engineer, 23; Leonard Abbott, infantryman, 21; Rai Achal, Ghurka rifleman, 27. At the other end of the line, in Thailand, another 4,946 men are buried in the cemetery at Kanchanaburi. In between lies the “Death Railway”, the line devised by Japan's Imperial Army at the height of the Second World War to transport troops and supplies from Bangkok to Burma. Posted Image As chronicled in the Fifties classic Bridge On The River Kwai, they found a ready supply of labour in British prisoners-of-war captured when Singapore fell in February 1942. The line was completed in just a year, but it cost the lives of around 13,000 POWs and 100,000 native labourers. One man died for every sleeper laid. Yet Burma became a “forgotten war”, eclipsed by the heroics of the western front and the gruesome discovery of the gas chambers. The POWs’ homecomings were quiet affairs and, until the Government introduced a new compensation scheme in 2000, they received just £76 each for their ordeal. Source Link |
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| Alli | Apr 20 2014, 02:25 PM Post #3 |
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What happened was horrific it's painful to imagine the torture they went through even watching in the movie makes you feel ill.. The acting was excellent on everyone's part I have watched documentaries my late ex hubby had and it was amazing anyone survived I never understood the torture instilled by the Japanese to such extremes....... As Eric Lomax said.. "Sometimes the hating has to stop"!! Profound words... Edited by Alli, Apr 20 2014, 03:33 PM.
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