It’s not until after the couple is married that she realizes how the nightmares still haunt him, while fantasies of revenge continue to dominate his waking thoughts.Īlthough Lomax belongs to a support group of sorts back home in Berwick-upon-Tweed, he and a dozen other survivors keep mum about their experience (this code of silence makes the fact that Lomax agreed to tell his story at all a rare thing among former Pacific-theater POWs). Patti can sense that there’s something not quite right about Lomax when they meet - a certain frazzled professorial quality that masks just how much trauma he’s still coping with as a result of his captivity. He worked as a signals engineer in the service and never lost his love of trains, despite being forced to build Thailand’s notorious “Death Railway” after being taken prisoner in Singapore, circa 1942. I feel this is a hit or miss situation depending on who you are.Lomax is a self-professed “railway enthusiast,” you see.
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Although the film did not work for me, I recognized that Eric Lomax's story is inspiring but the movie failed to help me connected with his amazing story. Kidman is graceful and reeks of devotion while Firth wears his heart on his sleeve for the audience and Sanada is just sort of impressive.
Jeremy Irvine is unrecognizable in this film but it feels like he was barely there. As I mentioned the cast gave a decent performance, they were good maybe not great but they were sensitive and raw.
I needed to care, to feel for Eric Lomax but I never really did. It's not as gruesome as it could have been for movie War movie, the torture is kept to a minimum, so they could have pull on the audience's heart strings and play on the emotion card more. Since the film is based on a true story, it's a shame that there's such a lack of emotional involvement. The photography is good, the actors gave a decent performance, so it must be the script or the director. Then when we get to the thick of it, the heart of the story and Eric Lomax's history starts to make sense a little bit, but again it's executed poorly. The photography is good, the actors gave a decent performance, It begins like a poorly executed romantic movie, too fast and a little messy. It begins like a poorly executed romantic movie, too fast and a little messy. The only downside, if this bothers you, is that it has scenes of torture and violence and an inspiring message which may hit you the wrong way if you love wallowing in your own self-pity - which are the only people I can imagine not liking this film (I know what that's like because I did it for much of my life) See it and be inspired. Not only that it is a true story of mercy triumphing over judgement. If you prefer modern films that have no hero, where everyone is dysfunctional and tainted by evil, and that really have nothing to say, then you might find this film old fashioned - personally I miss old fashioned where films had meaning, a moral, a message and a hero - and this one has it. In my opinion one of the best films I've seen in years and I see a lot of movies. The film reminded me of "The Shawshank Redemption" in many ways as it is a film about loss, suffering, revenge and redemption. The opening scenes where the lead character falls in love was worth the price of admission. The film reminded me of "The Shawshank I LOVED this film - everything about it was done well, the cinematography, the music, the editing and it had the one thing a movie should have - a great story. I LOVED this film - everything about it was done well, the cinematography, the music, the editing and it had the one thing a movie should have - a great story.
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