Yesterday, Peter and I went to see the ‘The Railwnay Man‘ at the Dendy Cinemas at the Quay, Sydney Harbour.
This movie is based on the best selling book by Eric Lomax. Colin Firth plays the older Eric Lomax and Jeremy Irvine is in the role of the young one who got captured by the Japanese in Singapore in 1942 and sent with his mates to the notorious ‘Death Railway’ in Thailand.
Patti Lomax (Nicole Kidman) turns out to be a wonderfully supportive wife of the older Eric. Eric, as a 21 year old, is a British Signals Engineer and railway enthusiast. And of course he is in the British Army. The film depicts the sufferings that war veterans undergo even decades after the events. The sufferings occur on both sides, the oppressed as well as the oppressors. It shows the absolute trauma that wars can inflict on the participants. It also shows how sufferings can be abbreviated by enemies becoming friends.
This movie was psychologically quite challenging. The torture scenes were immensely distressing, however necessary to understand the full impact of the sufferings these people had to go through; and not just in a physical but all over in a psychological sense as well.
The acting all around was truly first class. Jonathan Teplitzky created a very powerful film with ‘The Railway Man’ with an elite cast. And it is based on a true story!
The DENDY CINEMAS are going to show soon ‘The Book Thief’. This movie we definitely want to see as well. This is another story going back some seventy years.
It was great to be out in Sydney yesterday on a beautiful warm summer’s day. Since it was Sunday, I went to the 7,30 am Mass. The Epiphany was celebrated a day early. Peter picked me up after Mass, and we went to do half an hour’s shopping. We picked up a lot of bananas and some stone fruit among a few other things. At 10,29 we caught the train to Sydney. The movie started at 2 pm. That gave us a bit of time to enjoy the wonderful summer Sunday around Sydney harbour. Peter took a lot of pictures and I took only a few. Here now are some of the pictures.
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Great shots of Sydney. I’ll have to put The Railway Man on my list of to sees. Sounds just down my alley.
It was definitely down our alley too, Linda. To walk along Sydney Harbour on a beautiful summer day is always an experience and very enjoyable. 🙂
Colin Firth is a great actor, i have it on my list to see.
Too right, Sidey, Colin Firth is a great actor. Do not miss this movie!
We saw “American Hustle”. After reading rave reviews we were disappointed. The audience seemed lukewarm towards this movie as well. Ah, well, it is not often we see a bad one. The “Book thief” is certainly a fantastic read. Don’t know about the movie. It has had mixed reviews.
Loved the photos of Sydney. Especially the boat photos. We arrived there in 1956.
Hi Gerard, we arrived in Port Melbourne in 1959. If you know how to enlarge the picture of the boat, you can see that there is written on it: Oosterdam. I was wondering whether this is the same as Amsterdam?
I think The Railwayman would be a ‘must see’ movie for you. Definitely not a bad one, but quite challenging.
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“The Railway Man” is a movie with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. We saw recently another movie with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman: “Before I go to sleep”