28 April 2012

Railway Man to be Filmed

Holywood Glam has hit Edinburgh (or more accurately North Berwick) with the arrival in town of Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. 

The Oscar winning pair are in the area to shoot the feature version of Eric Lomax's book The Railway Man.

My brother bought me this for Christmas a few years ago. It is an extraordinary, true, story of survival in the face of immense cruelty and of reconciliation and forgiveness.

Lomax, from Joppa in Edinburgh, was stationed in Singapore when it was overrun by the Japanese. He found himself in Changi prison facing violence and intimidation that I can't begin to imagine.

I don't want to spoil the plot but anything that gets this amazing account of his life read by a wider audience is a good thing. 

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