Movie Review: THE RAILWAY MAN (2014) A

Very, very painful story of a British prisoner of the Japanese during WW II.   He was one of the people working the railway through Burma to India that Japan was building with slave labor.  The movie Bridge Over The River Kwai is part of that story.

The film, however, is based on the autobiography, THE RAILWAY MAN, which  tells the extraordinary true story of Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), the British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war. Decades later, Lomax and his  love interest Patti (Nicole Kidman) discover that the Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his horrible treatment is still alive.

The movie shows Lomax meeting with the interpreter years after the events in Southeast Asia, and dealing in his own way of attempting to resolve the past torture that still haunts him.

The mental problems that arise after any conflict . . .especially in wartime, will leave you the ponder the lunacy of sending people to fight wars in foreign lands and the emotional scars that remain after the soldier returns home.