‘Kwai’s’ Messages

Only The Times (and perhaps the Village Voice) could describe “Bridge on the River Kwai” as an “antiwar movie” (Calendar Listings, April 30). There are many messages in this wonderful movie, but antiwar isn’t one of them.

Among the clear messages are: that the Allies were right to combat the Japanese by destroying the bridge; that the imprisoned British soldiers were wrong to have efficiently aided their captors in constructing the bridge; that the Japanese prison camp authorities were brutal in their treatment of the prisoners; and that the prisoners and the Allies dispatched to destroy the bridge were courageous and patriotic.

MARK LANDSBAUM

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