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To start with, Colonel Nicholson appears to be a stickler for precept, keen to die somewhat than have his officers do menial labor in a Japanese jail camp. In the long run, his rules appear to be a canopy for private vainness. He’s keen to place his officers to work constructing a bridge for his enemies, so long as it leaves him with a legacy. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is a mirrored image on the which means of labor, and whether or not the ravages of time, if not conflict, suggest that being joyful in a single’s work—to make use of a phrase repeated a number of instances within the movie—is nothing greater than futility and insanity. Is figure the important thing to freedom, or is it inevitably a type of bondage? How will we distinguish the need to be artistic from the need for status? When is destroying one thing extra artistic than constructing it?
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