Anyone tear up at the end?

This movie tore right through me because I am from Edinburgh, I have been to the Bridge Over The River Kwai, the graves at Kanchanaburi and Chungking. I've also read Eric's book and done research and writing into those events. The film of the drawings by PoWs were the reality and this was so sanitised, but understandably so. Men did not look truly emaciated nor with the myriad of diseases or tropical ulcers. The true dispair or relentless savage beatings was not depicted. But it gave enough for the average viewer to take the point. Nor were the Hell Ships depicted where men were driven to vampirism and the edge of sanity. What they suffered can never be described. But on so many occasions, I sank into my chair and felt my eyes well up. I have read so much not to know more than just a little. But one poor lady was openly weeping at the end. She told me her great uncle had survived being a prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore and she said it had affected him greatly for the rest of his life. One prisoner in four died at the hands of the Japanese. There was no Geneva Convention, no salvation, nothing. It is said that for every sleeper laid on that railway, a man died. The mortality rate at the hands of the Japanese was 4/1. And no man who came home following their captivity did so with completely sound mind or life long health problems. This film goes a way to exposing the dreadful myth of The Bridge Over The River Kwai. The Forgotten Highlander is another amazing book, as is Surviving The Sword. The Japanese ability to cause intolerable cruelty and suffering, acts of bestial and unrelenting savagery to prisoners is perhaps unparalleled in modern history. Yet this pales into almost insignificance to what they did to the populations of the countries they occupied, most especially to the Chinese. It was little more than medieval barbarity. The Rape of Nanking might give you an idea.

yep i did great movie loved it.!!!