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By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on the true story of former WWII Japanese prisoner of war Eric Lomax and script adaptation by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, director Jonathan Teplitzky brings us Lomax\u2019s harrowing story of survival under the most brutal of circumstances, and the power of redemption and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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Seeming a mild-mannered slightly odd duck with an obsession for railroads and timetables, it doesn\u2019t take long for us to learn that Lomax is a bit damaged from his experiences in the war, experiences of which he doesn\u2019t want to speak, experiences which terrorize him day and night.\u00a0 While serving as radio man for a British contingent stationed in the Far East, on capture as prisoners of war, Eric and his entire unit, as well as others, are forced to work as slave labor, building the Thailand-Burma Railway aka Death Railway.<\/p>\n

A loner for the past 40 years, serendipity plays a hand when Eric meets Patti on a train.\u00a0 It\u2019s love at first sight.\u00a0 But Eric tells Patti nothing about his past and it is only after they\u2019re married that she sees him start to break down, become more reclusive, violent, confused.\u00a0 A former nurse, Patti realizes this is a result of whatever happened in the war.\u00a0 She also\u00a0 knows that the only way to heal is to face the past, confront it,\u00a0 and after pleading with one of Eric\u2019s former brothers-in-arms, she learns of the horrors all of the men endured as prisoners; that is, up to a point, as Eric has never spoken to anyone of what happened to him, what tortured he endured, when he was taken from the group and imprisoned alone, in a cage, in a dark room.\u00a0 And now decades later, those tortures are as real as ever.<\/p>\n

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Set in the 1980’s, Teplitzky relies on vividly lensed flashbacks of Eric\u2019s time as a Japanese POW that assail the senses with light, texture, saturated color and sound.\u00a0 The terror is real, palpable.\u00a0 We feel the pain of each horror inflicted on Eric. We see his future being shaped by the tortures inflicted upon him.\u00a0 We also see the strength of the human spirit, the resilience and hope.<\/p>\n

Those human qualities are delicately and expertly brought to life not only\u00a0 by Colin Firth as an aged Eric, but moreso, by Jeremy Irvine as Young Eric who should garner Academy attention come Oscar time.\u00a0 Captivating with a blend of confidence and fear, Irvine is spellbinding.\u00a0 Firth, meanwhile, makes the heart stop as he goes into seizure-like physical nightmares as a man suffering the post traumatic stress of his tortuous past.\u00a0 Frightening, yet impossible to turn away from Firth\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

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As Eric\u2019s loving and devoted wife, Patti, Nicole Kidman brings a quiet gravitas to Patti of which I wish we had seen more.\u00a0 Kidman and Firth connect with a comfortable ease serving as a soft balance to the tortures of Eric\u2019s past life.\u00a0 Stellan Skarsgaard serves well as Eric\u2019s former commander Finlay, giving the character an authoritative yet compassionate edge instrumental in the development of the film\u2019s third act.<\/p>\n

As Eric\u2019s cruel captor Takashi Nagase, Tanroh Ishida and Hiroyuki Sanada, as the young and older Nagase, respectively, embody the character.\u00a0 Ishida, bringing Nagase to life in the heat of the war and with the prime objective to build the railroad and make a name for himself with his superiors, delivers a tacit cold cruelty that pushes the boundaries of inhumane treatment to excess.\u00a0 However, it is Sanada as the older Nagase who matches Firth beat for beat providing a palpable emotional arc that goes from seeming ambivalence to mutual understanding and compassion.\u00a0\u00a0 To watch Firth and Sanada in this emotionally nuanced dance is not only stirring but engrossing.<\/p>\n

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Not to divulge the plot developments for those who haven\u2019t read Lomax\u2019s book of the same name on which the film is based, suffice to say that THE RAILWAY MAN packs an emotional punch to move even the coldest heart; so powerful you feel the pain, you feel burdens lift as demons are faced, you feel the forgiveness fill the screen and the room….and just watching, you are lifted and uplifted.<\/p>\n

Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky<\/p>\n

Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson based on the autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0 Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgaard, Jeremy Irvine, Tanroh Ishida, Hiroyuki Sanada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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