shagpuss
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Read a book about the Rape Of Nanking years ago. Had to give up at about 100 pages. Was just too horrible.
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Read a book about the Rape Of Nanking years ago. Had to give up at about 100 pages. Was just too horrible.
Chris O'Connor
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I watched Bridge on the River Kwai with Alec Guinness years ago, a classic film made just 12 years after the end of the war in 1957 but in colour and not dated, as about the Japanese PoW's.
It's about a Colonel Nicholson who as the senior officer amongst the prisoners reluctantly agrees to camp commander Saito's suggestion of getting the World War II POWs to build a railway bridge. However, the project soon becomes an obsession..
The cruelty depicted at a time when it wasn't normal in British cinema to be so explicit was only part of the tale. Truly harrowing, brings home to you in a way no documentary really can, just how inhuman the guards were to other human beings, although in general the Japanese were brought up to think being taken prisoner was the ultimate degradation, worse than death, and prisoners were therefore the lowest of the low and should be treated as such.
Why did the man throw an onion in the water?.....to make the bridge over the river kwai.
Chris O'Connor
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It's years since I watched it so unfortunately can't remember in such detail re the incident you're alluding to.
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witchdoc187
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Hahaha
Bridge over the river cry, onion, it's an old joke,. Good film by the way.
Chris O'Connor
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I'm massively slow at this time in the morning, brain's not working yet - realised the obvious joke too late.
Spadge Vernacular
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I'm massively slow at this time in the morning, brain's not working yet - realised the obvious joke too late.
It brought a smile to my morning so thank you
Brendan Janus
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The Rise & Fall of A White Collar Vicar !!
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Watched the Lil Peep documentary on Netflix 'Everybody's Everything' - had Terrence Malick as a producer which was somewhat surprising. Really, really enjoyed it. Whether you like his music or not (i'm personally a big fan), it's a harrowing insight into a tragic life and the state of the opioid pandemic in America.
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Finished The Lobster. Sick, sick mind, but very impressive. I know what you did there, Lanthimos. Second film from him I saw, Dogtooth was also good but this is on another level. Needs a second viewing.
Daz1878
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Completely forgot about this until just now, but when I saw the film Gaspar Noé introduced it and told the audience to pay careful attention to the woman's face right at the end, because it changes everything (and it did). I passed this advice on to a mate before he went to see it, and while he appeared to take it on board, he obviously didn't as he totally got the wrong end of the stick with it, the utter bozo...
Lad from Vienna
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Saw Legend about the Kray twins, proper acting by Tom Hardy and decent gangster movie. Love those Scorsese style movies that aren't too overtly moralizing.
jaycee
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Enola Holmes on Netflix,I like Sherlock and thought this might be a novel twist,Millie Bobby Brown is an awful actress,I'd score it 2 for the tenuous link to Sherlock Holmes and for having Francis Delatour in it,you will actually get more enjoyment picking up a Holmes novel and slamming it into your testicles
coollino
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Just finished this, very good.
It was/was a very interesting scene. I did read an interesting article, about 1000 gecs, about how they are not afraid to show their influences of nu-metal and '00 emo as they are not aware of how quickly it became dated and scorned against at the time due to how young they are.
As they said, it's definitely a version of punk. it's not really that different to the Fugazi way of doing things.
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