i have not manage to completely block out this film from memory even though it have be two year since i have see it . don not get me wrong i have long forget the main story line the relationship between kidman and law and that make no impression on me but it be the torture scene in the film that really strike me . i cry for about two hour straight after ward . it have never previously occur to me how people and in war time and could take advantage of something as pure a a mother love . we see several example of this here in both the scene with natalie portman and with the mother with her finger in the fence for keep her son hidden at home . i be shock at these scene and will probably never watch the film again a a consequence because the scene even now be perfectly clear in my mind . however and i be glad i watch the film simply because it have make me more aware to the horror of war and the horrible cruelty that mankind can inflict on it own . the blonde albino character have be top of my list of most evil bad guy ever since i saw the film . his horrible sneer and lack of any human feeling for the people he torture really hit a nerve with me . at one point i want to get up in the cinema and kill him myself ( see the movie push me over the edge of reason and it only occur to me afterward that i would only be hit a big screen that show the film power and intensity at least ) . i recommend the film for it sheer experience not for the entwined love story but for the manner in which it depict war without need a battlefield .