The Railway Man.

Colin Firth comes back to the blog in another equally moving film. The last time he featured was Gambit but that was more for Alan Rickman than Colin Firth. The Last film staring him that I watched because of him was 'A Single Man' and it was incredibly moving. The Railway Man is just as moving, maybe not quite as moving as Schindlers List but it is pushing for second place on the list of war related movies.

The Railway Man is about a man who was a prisoner of war and struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Dissorder. All that he is interested in is trains (Autsim?) and for a long time his life is only filled up by trains. Then he meets a woman (Nicole Kidman) and marries her. She was a nurse and she wants to help him but he wont talk about what happened so she gets most of the facts from a friend of Eric's that was also a prisoner of war with him.

The film becomes so moving in the last fifteen minutes when Eric goes and finds his tormentor from the war and talks to him. Overcoming the nightmares and the voices/ flashbacks is the hardest thing in the world to do. The way that Colin Firth does it is a true display of art and talent. The anger can clearly be seen in the eyes but the compassion that eventually comes out is genius. It is clear to see that this is a man who is angered by what was done to him but is not angered enough repeat the actions done to him on his tormentor.

All credit must be given to Hiroyuki Sanada, his empathy and emotion whilst opposite Colin Firth enables Colin Firth to display the emotion in a way that is both something to be admired and something to be feared. A moving film isn't created by just one person and it certainly took at least three people and the extra help from Stellan Skarsgard.

This is another film that should have won awards but it was probably beaten out by other fantastic films released in 2013.