![]() ![]() Get hold of it and watch it while your waiting for Lomax's story to hit the screen. After liberation Gordon eventually moved to America where he became the dean of the chapel at Princeton University. As he recounted in his 1995 best-selling memoir The Railway Man, Eric Lomax was able to forgive the Japanese translator who tortured him when Lomax was a British World War II prisoner of war. Many years after the war, Eric (Colin Firth) has finally met the love of his life in Patti (Nicole Kidman). He was also present with Lomax when Lomax was locked up and totured unmercifully in Outram Road Prison.Īt the end of the movie you will see a cameo of the two of them, Gordon and The Japanese together at the Allied Cemetary in K'Buri not long before Gordons death. Based on a true story, The Railway Man follows the life of Eric Lomax, a man who was mentally and emotionally scarred from being tormented as a P.O.W. He has visited Thailand, pilgrimages to K'Buri numerous times. His war experience affected him deeply and he returned to Japan and became a Buddhist Monk. He volutneered to stay on after the war to help locate the graves of the buried allied soldiers. He is still alive I think and he is the one who financed the Japanese Buddhist Shrine next to the Jeath Museum in Kan'buri. ![]() He plays a big part in the movie 'To End All Wars'. The Japanese Interpretor gets a mention in both books by both men. It was also republished to coincide with the movie release.Įrnest Gordon was a young Junior Officer in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders when he was captured whilst escaping via Indonesia. ![]() The autobiography was originally published under the name Through the Valley of the Kwai, then later as Miracle on the River Kwai. Starring Colin Firth (The King’s Speech). The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Ernest Gordon. Railway Man is a genuine surprisea film that heads toward a revenge drama before pivoting into a much more profound story. This movie sort of slipped under the radar in 2001, but then there was alot going on at the time. Probably the best of it's genre, to date, is another true story made into film, ' To End All Wars', a 2001 film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgård star in this drama based on a true story. Starring: Colin Firth,Nicole Kidman,Jeremy Irvine Watch all you want. The movie is pure crap and a complete distortion of the truth, Decades after World War II, a still-shattered soldier unexpectedly falls in love and sees a bizarre coincidence bring his past back into focus. The only thing this movie did was keep their memory alive. The survivors, at least the ones I have spoken to, are very scathing when you mention the William Holden Hollywood version. I'm hollow everytime I visit and pay my respects to these brave men, what they suffered is truly unbelievable and only a few survived to tell the story.Īny idea when it will be in the cinema here ? Firth's performance is filled with anger and revenge, despair and heartbreak and, of course, he nails the buttoned-up, repressed Brit routine.I believe this our generations Bridge Over River Kwai film. This is very much a personal story of how love, courage and forgiveness can heal, and it's hard not to be moved by Lomax's harrowing story. It's Patti who convinces her husband it's time to face his demons and travel to Thailand to confront his tormentor. The waterboarding left him permanently traumatised and he was haunted by Japanese officer Takashi Nagase, who oversaw his torture.ĭecades later, Lomax meets and marries Patti (Kidman), but it's not long until his nightmares return and he retreats from life. As a young Allied POW, Lomax was forced to work building the Thailand-Burma railway, known as the "Death Railway", and after a radio Lomax had made was discovered in the prisoner's camp, he was tortured. Based on the memoir by British World War II soldier Eric Lomax, The Railway Man is an intense and emotional drama about one man's lifelong struggle to overcome the effects of being a prisoner of war.Īs a child in Edinburgh, Lomax (Firth) was fascinated by railways and local steam trains he could never have imagined the horror building a railway would later bring him.
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