And to top it off, it is filmed in panoramic, widescreen Cinemascope. As the film’s theme music intertwines with the whistled tune, it is clear this is going to be a substantial epic. The film begins as we are taken through dense vegetation, makeshift graves, and a railroad, all leading up to a regiment of British soldiers whistling the “Colonel Bogey March” while entering a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Instead they are fought internally, within each of the film’s leading characters and subtly between each other. Like other war films, this intelligent look at the absurdity of war is filled with battles - but this time they don’t take place on a battlefield. The war film “The Bridge on the River Kwai” blasted to smithereens the glamour and heroics of just about all previous war films, as it brought a fresher, deeper reality to the genre.
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