Watching'"The Railway Man' on installments.

[Paul S.]

I offer this for those who haven't seen this movie but intend to. Let's just say you might want to pace yourself.

I DVR recorded "The Railway Man' back before Easter and haven't watched it yet. Tonight, the wife and I decided to watch it. Mind you, I know exactly what it is about, but we had to turn it off and have a breather after only 20 minutes or so. So, our plan is, we will watch it on the installment plan - say 15 to 20 minutes at a time, with long breathers between 'episodes'.

You see, both of us knew 8th Division blokes growing up. Men who had been captured at Singapore and spent the rest of the war on the railway. They were our neighbours, our friend's fathers or even our school teachers. We knew men who came home broken and tormented by what they endured.

Let's just say that the movie is intense to start with. That intensity is magnified (and easily personalized and anger-inducing) for us Australians who grew up in the shadow of the men who suffered the horrors they did at the hands of the Japanese.

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