Mr. Lawrence Biography

Genre: Military -psychological drama year of release: a psychological drama, the action of which takes place in a prisoner of war camp on the island of Java, where the owners are the Japanese, and the prisoners are the British. British officer Lawrence refuses to cooperate with his jailers. As always, they all faded. Yes, Lawrence did not collaborate with the Japanese for his benefit!

But he does not need it. He is a refined Englishman who has worked in Japan for more than one year and, even a friend, partially with a Japanese outlook on life. The main fighting faces, in addition to Lawrence: - another colonel, military aristocrat, commander of prisoners of war, he either refused to cooperate with his warders. In his youth, he suffered a mental trauma, about which, only in difficult conditions, captivity began to guess and understand that the humiliation of his brother-humping brother, for whom he did not stand up, will push him to reckless actions, which, under certain conditions, can be called heroism.

The head of the camp. A person who is trying to understand his opponent, but constantly stumbled upon the incompatibility of eastern and Western culture. More precisely, on the mismatch of the Japanese view of military valor and Christian commandments. Although, who did not retreat from these commandments? But for a Japanese warrior, this is a shame that can be redeemed only at the cost of life.

It is precisely as a warrior that draws attention to Jones-warrior, trying to find points of contact. This is probably possible, but not in war and captivity, but in a simple peaceful life. After all, Lawrence was able to at least partially understand the worldview of the Japanese.

Not an aristocrat at all. Obviously a peasant by origin, he is the same samurai as his boss. A person with a hype is a Japanese concept of honor of a military man. He can afford to kill the enemy in battle and respect the prisoner. Find and respect the teacher in prisoners and despise him for military weakness when surrendering. Here on this misunderstanding of cultures, the whole film is being built.

It is difficult to say who is the main character in him. Who is the movie about? About Lawrence or any other of the five persons listed by me. No, there is no protagonist here. And the final of the film confirms this. Lorens and sergeant remain alive. It is more correct to say - only Lawrence. They changed places. Lawrence is now the winner, and the sergeant is a prisoner.

And Lawrence suffers, suffers from the impossibility of showing the same mercy, albeit on the verge of a foul, the mercy of the student in front of the teacher - his captive, which was manifested in relation to him. The scandalous, cruel classic is the Japanese director of Nagisa Osima. Now the times are not the same, and his new ribbon about sodistiness among samurai has passed almost unnoticed.

And this film is strongly classic, military and psychological tragedy, the drama of the clash of cultures, the eternal drama of the confrontation of the East and West. And the East looks preferable in it. However, the West knows how to study. Lawrence example is confirmation of this. Unfortunately, your reviewer did not manage to record the names of its creators.