Direction

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2015)

Her direction was flawless on the technical side. Camera, framing, production design, all was beautifully done. As were the performances. However it seems she is guilty of the same obsession with masochism as is Mel Gibson. All the scenes of brutal beatings, lashings, canning were so over the top that no one could survive such bodily injury. Also the things that did not work for me was the under water scenes lasting far to long for anyone to hold their breath. Also why in over a month at sea, in a raft, did none of the guys grow much facial hair. Also they must have had great barbers in those prisoner of war camps. Every guys hair was perfectly trimmed and never grew,