Thailand bridge on the River Kwai: out of Oscar's classic memory

Thailand Gui River understanding is that the Department of "World War II" theme won seven Oscar awards classic film -- "the bridge on the River Kwai", when I know what's going to walk into the movie screen in the heart, not excited. I don't understand why the heart feel to Thailand must see the bridge, is only for a movie?

The bridge on the River Kwai

In order to bridge on the River Kwai, we from Bangkok, across the half of Thailand, after nearly 4 hours of journey, to get away from the Thai-Burmese border near Kanchanaburi province where the bridge on the river kwai. Here because before massive planting of opium, so also known as "little Golden Triangle". See both sides of the road, golden fields stretch as far as eye can see, really want to stay here, on the life of men tilling the farm and womenweaving.

The Gui River is the 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the third great rivers of Gui River -- the territory of Thailand, it is not only Burma, Thailand's borders, and witnessed the world drug Baron Zhang Qifu (Kunshan) and. Now the bridge on the River Kwai, no chill in the air, a completely different and cinema in the wild world, a train from Burma to Thailand tourism souvenir train just opened, many tourists taking pictures in the as cheerful as a lark, at that time who would have thought the war 60 years ago, who would have thought that this is the tens of thousands of people life of the bridge?

The end of World War II bomb

The long river of history

Walking on the bridge, as if history is reduced, the war has just gone to. This is the Chinese people, river, Southeast Asian peoples and the world unforgettable people memorable bridge. A river, a bridge, take us into the long river of history -- the history of the second world war.

Across the River Kwai Bridge on the River Kwai, was a World War II Japanese drives the Allied troops captured "masterpiece"! Because the connecting Thailand and Burma railroad of 415 kilometers to sacrifice the lives of countless to complete, the "Death Railway" is called, the famous bridge on the River Kwai is one of them, called "Death Railway".

In 1942, Japan was the occupation of large tracts of land in Southeast asia. In order to via Burma and India Thailand offensive military action, convenient transportation supply, the Japanese decided to build a bridge connecting the Thai-Burmese border railway. Then, the Japanese army from 1942 to September, the Allied prisoners forced in Britain and the United States, and a large number of Southeast Asian countries to the Thai-Burmese border civilians as labourers. At that time, Western Kanchanaburi, Thailand is a desolate mountain, climate is burning hot, miasma fog, malarial. In order for this to take 6 years to build the railway completed within a year, the Japanese Bayonet forced hundreds of thousands of workers day and night construction. Labor, harsh conditions of heavy, resulting in 16000 Allied prisoners of war and more than 100000 civilians died in hunger and illness, died in the army under the whip, and engage in the wilderness.

The bridge on the River Kwai side is more gentle, but the river is steep peaks, and some sections even cut in the steep precipices and cliffs.

At that time, many workers are in the construction of the bridge on the River Kwai, a ghost; wandering souls. The construction of the bridge's story was later 1957 British renowned director David Lien filmed and won the Oscar for best picture, actor, director, screenwriter, editing, music and other seven awards, become the classic war film, the bridge on the River Kwai so famous.

After the war, the government of Thailand to spend heavily to the railway and bridge from the allies to redeem and again built to bridge.

In front of the bridge on the River Kwai as film in the steep, tall. Blockbuster model bridge two unexploded reminder that here was a battlefield, unexploded Allied bombing during the World War II bridge two bombs in the bomb. The black body, the rudder red, there it stood, silent to tell people that day and night and extremely brutal crimes of aggression of Japan 60 years ago.

The bridge on the dark, walking in the blood of laying the rails, I truly feel each sleeper are buried under a Confederate dead ghost!

The river flows quietly, it's hard to imagine 60 years ago here had a fierce battle. The bridge that is Burma, this is a country famous for its jade. Thai people's peaceful coexistence, border also exist in name only. The history of Burma and Thailand are also a pair of lovers, but at the moment, we abandoned the old grudges, strive for more wonderful life. What better than this?