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Gripping tale of triumph over political and environmental adversity , 30 January 2012

The Way Back on DVD (2010)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Dejan Angelov, Yordan Bikov
Director: Peter Weir
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Dostoyevsky meets Homer.

Peter Weir maintains his amazing strike rate for directing great and authentic feeling historic movies such as 'Master & Commander'.

You know it's only inspired by a true story so start questioning where fact and part-fact blur. Was the female tag-along character real or added by the studio to widen the appeal? But suspend all such disbelief and get behind our heroes as they overcome their geography, dubious pasts, mutual distrust and varying contributions to the group cause. It had echoes of 'Papillon' set in a deep-freezer.

Colin Farrell is excellent as the vicious common criminal who piggy-backs onto the framed Political prisoners' escape plan.

Some of the political discourses where a bit simplistic and heavy-handed, acting as filler while they traipsed up some frozen ridge or crawled to a fetid mud puddle.

The survival tips are fascinating, cropping up like gadgets in a Bond film to make you go 'Thats cool'. Who knows maybe one viewer will save their life in the wild one day. Aside from the Bear Mears style tricks we get spectacular landscape cinematography, as expected of Weir's seasoned direction.

The film conveyed their sense of displacement both literally and with the changing geo-politics of 1941. This was a product of living in a prison within a prison country, it has disoriented them. 'Is China safe? They are fighting the Japanese, what about Tibet?' Decisions decisions....its life or death all the way.

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