When Saito released Nicholson, he led other British prisoners of war to successfully build the Bridge on the River Kwai. He was very proud. While some questioned that building the bridge was likely to be treasonous, Nicholson believed that integrity was more important. Perhaps his hopes were good, he hoped that when the war was over, local residents would remember that the bridge was built by the British when they used it. He knows his own insignificance, and he hopes to prove himself. Gradually, when you are obsessed by sth, you are bound to be chained by it. People lose sight of the bigger and more important principles.
Interestingly, in stark contrast to it is Major Shears, who seems unprincipled, chooses to run away, and reluctantly participates in the task of blowing up the bridge, but at the last critical moment, in order to complete the task, he instinctively rushed to it. The front lines gave their lives.
What are principles? Principles can only be relative. There can only be one absolute principle, and we will not know what our most important principle is until the most critical moment.
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