Brown Motion

That was the A-bomb journey. During times of peace and prosperity the human mind can be contemplative.  In times of war it is an entirely different story.  Looking back in history 70 years ago, humankind did a most horrific act.  It dropped a WGD - weapon of generational destruction on our own kind. America developed a nuclear weapon in Los Alamos, NM and dropped it on Japanese civilians in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.  One cannot imagine the turmoil that faced Truman, the American president that made the call at the time.  One cannot imagine the wrath faced by those that survived this devastation.  One can only reflect. This past year we took our daughter to the origin and the culmination point of these two events in history to see first hand what the human mind is capable of.  While the science of fission and harvesting an amazing energy source could have limitless potential it also was responsible for a scale of destruction never before seen ...

Stars - Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman Inspired by real events circa WW II. Story of a rail enthusiast Brit, Mr. Lomax, who has served in the second war in SE Asia.  He is living with the nightmares of being tortured by the Japanese Imperial Army as a prisoner in their camps in Thailand.  The movie is based on the story of these British soldiers that were humiliated and made to slave to build the railway line from Thailand to Burma (now called Myanmar). Today there are luxury train rides available on this route starting from Singapore in the south going all the way north into Myanmar that cost a pretty pound. Colin Firth plays the role of a signal engineer that has stood up to the brutal interrogations and beatings when his cadre is discovered to be building a secret radio in the camp.  Memories of the treatment at the hands of Japanese soldiers has kept him suffering deep inside for decades until he runs into Nicole Kidman's character on a train journey ...