The railway man full movie code#
It’s not until after the couple is married that she realizes how the nightmares still haunt him, while fantasies of revenge continue to dominate his waking thoughts.Īlthough Lomax belongs to a support group of sorts back home in Berwick-upon-Tweed, he and a dozen other survivors keep mum about their experience (this code of silence makes the fact that Lomax agreed to tell his story at all a rare thing among former Pacific-theater POWs). Patti can sense that there’s something not quite right about Lomax when they meet - a certain frazzled professorial quality that masks just how much trauma he’s still coping with as a result of his captivity. He worked as a signals engineer in the service and never lost his love of trains, despite being forced to build Thailand’s notorious “Death Railway” after being taken prisoner in Singapore, circa 1942. The epilogue relates that Nagase and Eric remained friends until their deaths in 20, respectively.Lomax is a self-professed “railway enthusiast,” you see. He meets up with Nagase once again, and in an emotional scene, after exchanging and accepting each other's apologies, the two make peace. After an indefinite period of time, Lomax returns, with Patricia, to Thailand. Lomax finally frees Nagase, throws his knife into the nearby river, and finally at peace with himself, returns to Britain. Nagase soon reveals that the Japanese (including himself) were brainwashed into thinking the war would be a victorious one for them, and that he never knew the high casualties caused by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lomax threatens to cut Nagase's throat and finally pushes him into a bamboo cage, of the kind in which Lomax and many other POWs had been placed as punishment. Out of guilt, Nagase does not resist, but Lomax redirects the blow at the last moment. The situation builds up to the point where Lomax prepares to smash Nagase's arm, using a club and a clamp designed by the Japanese for that purpose and now used as war exhibits. When he finally confronts his former captor, Lomax first questions him in the same way Nagase and his men had interrogated him years before. Lomax travels alone to Thailand and returns to the scene of his torture to confront Nagase 'in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate'. Before Lomax can act on this information, Finlay, unable to handle his memories of his experiences, commits suicide by hanging himself from a bridge. His best friend and fellow ex-POW Finlay brings him evidence that one of their captors, Japanese secret police officer Takashi Nagase, is now working as a tourist guide in the very camp where he and his men once tortured British POWs, having escaped prosecution for his war crimes. Some 30 years later, Lomax is still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, though strongly supported by his wife Patricia. Lomax and his surviving comrades are finally rescued by the British Army. In fact, however, his only intention had been to use the device as a morale booster for himself and his fellow prisoner-slaves. Apparently, he had fallen under suspicion of being a spy, for supposedly using the British news broadcast receiver as a transmitter of military intelligence. The torture depicted includes beatings, food deprivation and waterboarding. During his time in the camp as one of the Far East prisoners of war, Lomax is tortured by the Kempeitai (military secret police) for building a radio receiver from spare parts. During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
0 kommentar(er)
