Review of The Way Back (2011) by Jwee Chiek E — 22 May 2015
Kindness is not dangerous to life as Ed Harris claimed especially when one is at the receiving end. This is a beautiful film by Peter Weir on the excruciating escape of 6 prisoners + 1 from Gulag during the Stalin era.
Running and walking thousands and thousands of miles across snow covered freezing Siberia, the scorching dry Gobi desert and scaling the prohibitive Himalayas to get to India. It was kindness, self sacrifice and camaraderie that saved four survivors in the end.
An immensely courageous and heart wrenching journey to the end.
This review of The Way Back (2011) was written by Jwee Chiek E on 22 May 2015.
The Way Back has generally received positive reviews.
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