Ken Korman, who agreed with that assessment, stated: "Kidman finds herself playing an unabashedly middle-aged character. The book is heart-wrenching and provide a horrific account of Eric Lomax as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the torture he undergoes. For years all he wanted to do is kill his tormentors but what happens is so surprising it brought me to tears.

Given his predilection for structure, the army also provided that, when he was recruited at the outbreak of war in 1939. How can these devils still sleep at night or did they have conscience, are just some of the questions bugged me whenever I read this kind of books. However, Charmaine says that their time together was not easy since he still never talked about his feelings, but she's glad that they were at least in touch. I had felt less morbid vindictiveness towards the Japanese guards in Changi than these seemingly normal Scottish middle-class people were displaying to their own blood relatives.As punishment, Eric and his six comrades were first forced to stand out in the searing heat for hours without water or food. There is an interesting article in the Guardian which gives a voice to Charmaine Lomax's daughter from his first marriage. As powerful as various scenes in the movie are, they can't compete, in my humble opinion, with words on the page. Just the waiting to be beaten was a form of torture and Lomax watches his fellow officers beaten and is then he is beaten.

E’ stata una lettura molto interessante, anche se la scrittura non è particolarmente brillante, ma sicuramente precisa e, spesso, sconvolgente. Colin Firth is a lover of literature and for the most part has chosen wisely in terms of film adaptations e. When the British surrender in the far east to the Japanese, thousands of soldiers become prisoners of war. All of these factors played a part in creating soldiers who could carry out the most cruel acts of torture without a second thought.

Lomax discovers that the man has spent his life trying to make amends for his actions during the war by speaking out against militarism. Eric Lomax's daughter Charmaine wasn't upset that she, her sister Linda, and her mother Nan were left out of The Railway Man movie. He talks about Changi (the stage of the semi-fictional and also very moving novel "King Rat" by James Clavell) as "heaven" or paradise, and he does everything he can to be sent back there!