A great film in 1983 and still is today. Bowie at his best. He was an actor at heart. A film both men and women can enjoy. This was based on a fictionalized memoir by Laurens van der Post (1906-1996), a South African officer in the British Army during WW2. Captured and placed in a Japanese prison camp, he tried to detach from his treatment and reverted to his training as a psychologist. It does a good job show the horror of war and being captured. Well acted all around and a good soundtrack,
