If you loved The Bridge on the River Kwai, try Empire of the Sun

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

You already loved

Theyboth carry the bittersweet, epic mood tags, and they sit in Drama / History / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Bridge on the River Kwai, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Empire of the Sun is

Shanghai streets, Christmas 1941, a toy airplane. A boy's world shrinks to a prison camp, an American sailor becomes his lifeline. Spielberg frames childhood resilience in wartime.

If you loved The Bridge on the River Kwai, try Empire of the Sun

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If you loved The Bridge on the River Kwai, try Empire of the Sun

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