Walking. Walking. Walking. They're walking. Through Siberia. Through deserts. Up mountains. Down mountains. More cold. More hot. More dying of hunger, then thirst, then hunger again. Not having a good time. It's a long way to India. Poking holes in bark to make a mask for the snow storm. Running and hiding from the sand storm. Drinking mud. Eating snakes. Up mountains. Down mountains. It's a long way to walk when your feet hurt.
They're doing this to escape from a Soviet prison.
The Way Back is the sort of film where people walk in the desert until they collapse. Is that a mirage or a refreshing pool of water? Do they go off course to have a look? Either way they're not getting out of this desert for a long time. At times it's a bit like
Defiance, other times it's an endurance test. Not much fun, but not bad at all.
This has the feel of a book I read many years ago called The Long Walk. It was about a Polish soldier captured and imprioned by the Soviets after the German/Soviet carve up of Poland in 1939. He escaped from Siberia and made his way to England through India.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm reading bout this movie smacks of that book, I just can't find anything to corroborate it though.
Wikipedia says 'inspired by The Long Walk, a book by Sławomir Rawicz'. Looks like it's the same thing then. You might like the film.
ReplyDeleteAh..I am not with it today I should have checked wikipedia myself!! I read the book in highschool way back in the mid-1980's, so yes I will definitely go and see it when it hits our shores.
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