The Way Back

Peter Weir

Well intentioned attempt to translate The Long Walk to the screen. This incredible story (true?) of seven people escaping from the gulag in Siberia and gradually making their way through hill and dale, jungle, mountains and desert to freedom in India was a fascinating read...but as a film...not so much.

The inevitable fakeness of what these people looked like, sounded like (everyone spoke accented english) coupled with the lighting, sets...all the folderol of filmmaking made it closer to movie reality than the one we actually live in.

Give Weir credit for trying but it really didn't work. The book did...purely as an adventure story even with the yeti sighting.

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