![]() Both Firth and Irvine are forced to carry much of the weight of the anguish of their experience on their faces. This earnest but rather colorless adaptation of Eric Lomaxs book about. However, haunting moments where the audience can envision the brutality and resilience Lomax met as a prisoner of war are kept to a minimum. Alas, true stories (even heroic ones) do not always good films make. ![]() It is difficult to do justice to the power of this book. ![]() Reviewed in the United States on NovemVerified Purchase I came upon this book after reading at bbc.com of the recent death of Eric Lomax. Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle's pop culture critic. Railway Man is a disturbing, sobering, beautiful book. Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki. When the camera positions us in Lomax’s perspective as his psyche drifts from lying in his ordinary bedroom to a vivid, nightmarish vision of Japanese officers beating him and throwing him into a shed, the sequence is startling. 'The Railway Man' is a thoughtful reprieve from the louder and less subtle cinema that starts coming out this time of year. Rating: R for disturbing prisoner of war violence. Developed for the screen by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, it is an adaptation of the eponymous autobiographical book by Eric Sutherland Lomax, a former British Army officer who endured severe torture as a Prisoner of War (POW) at the Japanese camp during World War II. Lomax was a captive of the Japanese Army who was forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway in the early 1940s. Yes, ‘The Railway Man’ is based on a true story. After they marry and move in together, Lomax’s repressed feelings of his life at war begin to show, which makes Patti distraught. RYAN: Well it is still a very difficult to watch, heinous true war story its based on the real life events of WW II Veteran Eric Lomax, played by Colin Firth. It's a great war film that not so much looks at the actual war itself, but how a war. Coasting through the countryside on the train one morning, in a shabby coat, he chats with Patti (Nicole Kidman, hardly used), and falls in love with her. Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard turn in terrific performances. As an older man, Lomax obsessed over the order and operation of England’s railways, to the extent that he can hop between platforms to the one that most suits his travels when his original trip is delayed.
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