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Shortly before the film’s release, Teplitzky spoke about how a lucky break led to “The Railway Man,” how his focus on character over plot has served him well and the impact of having the real Lomax on set shortly before he passed in October 2012. With an inimitable editing style and a time-shifting script from “Millions” writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, the filmmaker places the audience in Lomax’s head as he tries to reconcile his torturous time in Burma with what promises to be a brighter future if only he can put his past behind him. While he lived to tell of his experience as an engineer in the British Army during World War II, Lomax continued to be haunted by his years spent in a Japanese prison camp where he and other POWs were forced to pave the way for the Imperial Army to bolster their military stronghold in Burma with the construction of a railway connecting it to Thailand.įor Teplitzky, who so vividly realized the past’s influence on the present in his last film “Burning Man,” which saw Matthew Goode deal with the personal demons of a man who recently lost his wife, “The Railway Man” is an opportunity to explore that theme on a grander scale when Lomax (played by Colin Firth primarily in his older years and Jeremy Irvine in his youth abroad) meets the woman he was meant to marry (Nicole Kidman) and yet cannot fully share his life with her since the horrors that he’s seen shouldn’t be shared with anyone. There are some remarkably complex compositions in Jonathan Teplitzky’s adaptation of Eric Lomax’s autobiography “The Railway Man,” not least of which is the one that makes up the man at its center.