Bridge on the river kwai movie critique
The name of the movie I critiqued is called Bridge on the River Kwai. It was a film created in 1957, which won 7 academy awards in that year. This movie was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel. The three main stars of this film are William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins. I watched this movie by myself this past Saturday, June 5th in my house. This movie was one of the earlier colorized films, which was probably a reason why it won best picture and other related awards that year. This movie was based on World War 2 with the prisoners of war from Britain on the island of Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It was not based on a novel however. The plot of the story goes as follows. Colonel Nicholson and his allied POW's are taken captive by Colonel Saito of Japan who force the prisoners to do manual labor for them by building a bridge to connect a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. Nicholson refuses to do work at first and is locked up in a small box. The rest of the workers struggle to build the bridge at first, but they are disciplined in order to complete it by the 12th of May, which is the deadline for the Japanese Colonel. Some of the prisoners try to escape but are either murdered, die of starvation, or by the powe
Another analysis why the characters real name wasn't used was maybe he was a traitor to his country or the film showed bias and stereotyping to any of the ethnicities whether it is white Anglo-Saxon or the Asians used in the movie. There were rivers, jungles and many barren fields. The film was confusing in some parts but foremost a general consensus was given. An analogy I can make about the British building the bridge and having it exploded is with the early slaves of Egypt. The writers of the film hypothesized that the main characters were obviously killed or tortured beyond belief of a film viewer. This was an actual event that happened nonetheless. Finally, I enjoyed the movie because it gave me a better sense of what life was like for the POW's and life in the 1940's. This event is the climax of the story where Colonel Nicholson dazed and unaware faints upon the detonator of the bridge where it explodes also taking a transport train as well. The movie was set in an island between Burma and Thailand, which showed the geographic nature of the Pacific island. Nicholson was fed a coconut every few days, which was one of the natural foods grown on the island that seemed accurate. To criticize however, the rising action was very complex and too broad too understand. This was probably against the idea of the British since they constructed it but that was unmentioned. For all of these reasons I can honestly say that the "Bridge on the River Kwai" was an event that is and will be in the future a legacy to be remembered. What one can recall was that an abandoned island in the middle of nowhere would have the railroad as its main source of technology, which was for importing and exporting purposes only.
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