The Way Back (2010)

The Way Back is a robustly made picture, heartfelt, well executed with an exhilarating sense of reach and narrative ambition. Where it falls down is a lack of personal intensity to match the spectacle. There is nothing that interesting to discover about Janusz, and nothing that interesting for him to discover about himself; even the secrets disclosed about the other escapers don't have much of an impact on the group dynamic. Well, this isn't an overwhelming problem. Weir has put together a good film – oddly, though, considering its scale, it feels like a rather small one.

this is an amazing movie. With his great cast, thrilling adventure, impressive settings and plot that teaches us a lot about human survival skills, director Peter Weir (Master and Commander (2003) and The Truman Show (1998)) is likely, with The Way Back (2010), to garner Oscar nominations.

The movie’s source of inspiration is the 1956 book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slawomir Ravicz – the action is tough, introducing us to the gulag in 1940 Siberia, which is full of dying men. Seven of them decide to escape into the wilderness, preferring to die free, not as prisoners.

the men walk 10,000 kilometres through Siberian frozen forests, across Mongolian plains and the ruthless Gobi desert, to reach Tibet and then India.

Brilliantly interpreted by Jim Sturgess, Janusz is a Polish soldier caught by the Red Army, convicted as a spy and sent to the Siberian camp. Next to him is Mister (Ed Harris), an American arrested while working for the Moscow Metro; Valka (Colin Farrell), an Urki inside the Gulag; Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean), an artist who sells drawings of naked women; Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky) who is only 17 and suffers night blindness due to lack of proper food; Latvian priest Voss (Gustaf Skarsgard) and humorous Yugoslav Zoran (Dragos Bucur).

Along the way, they encounter a woman, Irena (Saoirse Ronan) who teaches them the need to know and care for each other – each has his own drama and heavy past, but learns about his comrades and, above all, how to act like a team in facing danger.

The movie is an odyssey of ‘becoming’ – humour, life and death, power and will – the will to eat wood in order to survive and to be a team in the frozen forests of Siberia.

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