Hey, dieing 4life, it's "too lazy" not "to lazy", and "no sense" not "no sence." Wow, you're batting a thousand here, buddy.
Anyway, this film was great and i loved the idea of these two men overcoming their hate for each other and becoming friends. I guess unbelievable circumstances like being marooned on a deserted island will have folks put all differences aside and work together. Then become friends. Great message, great movie.
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dancingall
10 years ago
The whole theme is actually a bit thin. And the theme is wearing thin. It is a true story of nothing. No cultural wonderfulness, no friendship inducing tears. It is a sorry excuse of a theme well and truly done to death. The most likely scenario was that the Japanese soldier would have killed him. eaten him. the end.
To use such a story as friendship overcomes all is just sad. It doesn't prove anything except under *beep* circumstances who you chose to be friends with gets relegated to who is available for friendship. It doesn't show the humans spirit rising above cultural hatreds or political agendas. Because that has never been true. It shows people being people. Adjusting to the circumstances they are in and doing the best iwth what they have. Because we are humans attachments happen. Thats it. And the ending being some sort of post-modern thought of randomness and 'reality' giving meaning is just to pathetic and meaningless in itself. I guess that was what they were going for. But we don't need to appreciate it. Nor applaud them for it. No one on this earth is not aware of the savagery of real life. If they are not they are either blind or on some great drugs. And believing that others don't see this reality is so condescending it is beyond funny. Everyone knows. Most just chose to live in hope that humanity could stop acting like *beep* But we can't and we wont. And this movie does nothing to help. It instead offers a new utopian ideal that will in the end find its resting place in the graveyard of grand ideals. The truth of it was the bomb not just blowing up them but the whole notion of a world that could live in peace. Because it actually showed that the only chance people have for friendship which did not include a peaceful existence, was absolute isolation and constant threat of death from an outside source, in this case nature. So yeah if that is the lesson then wooop. Great. But any attempt to add some deep meaningful we will overcome war one day and live in a utopian world of love and compassion is just so last century. Surely we can give that one away now and start facing the truth about ourselves.
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mickmaxy
8 years ago
Lets not forget Dying, not dieing. Great movie with an ethical undercurrent. I guess it takes some intelligence to get it.
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