Do you ever feel as if life were an express train and there was no one at the throttle and the brake shoes had burned off? And as if you had just spent three years in solitary confinement and had slogged through a sewer in order to escape, and it was thirty degrees below zero outside, and the train was your last hope for freedom? If you do, then this may be just your cup of allegory. The big line -- not that "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger" and "Whatever happens happens" are little lines -- is set up by the accusation, "You're an animal!" "No," responds Manny Mannheim (or, in short, Man), "worse! Human!" Ptooey! With Jon Voight and Eric Roberts; based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa; directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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