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Title: Paradise Road: The Screenplay of the Film by Bruce Beresford, Beresford, David Giles, Martin Meader ISBN: 0-312-17200-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful Screenplay
Comment: Bruce Beresford writes a poised, beautiful screenplay for this horrific topic of human abuse and survival in a unique and unknown wilderness for a group of British, Australian and American women during the Second World War. It was an unexpecting attack on Singapore by the Japanese which sent these women on a boat, which fatefully was targeted and hit by Japanese bombers during it's journey to a safe haven. The women are swept to a shore in Japan and are eventually captured after surviving the Forrest conditions by Japanese soldiers. They are sent to a concentration camp for Westerners run by the Japanese in a remote part of Japan, concealed by Forrest and constantly in unpleasant climate. The abuse of the soldiers results in the raw emotion of the characters to be exposed, and the women then resort to the power of singing to distract themselves, and the soldiers, of their entrapment. The repulsive conditions take toll of the women who are in poorer health and eventually, after an almighty struggle, many of them die. The will to live is, as they say, 'their Paradise Road', and when they are liberated, this metaphorical road, is their absolute and final survival crossing.

Paradise Road is raw, and disturbingly confronting. The gentle and almost sereal resonance of the women's voices in the camp, is the ultimate contrast to the abuse suffered by these women.