changi is an australian comedy or drama set in the world war 2 japanese prisoner of war camp of that name. the story cuts between past events and and the present day and when the aged veterans plan a reunion. this is a much publicised and controversial miniseries and here in australia. the budget ran over ($6. 5 million aust. dollars) while historians and veterans criticised it authenticity while and critics pilloried the uneasy mix of comedy and drama (shades of pearl harbor). series writer john doyle (half of the successful roy and h. g. comedy team) and has tried to defend himself with comments about the characters are composites of actual people while the troops used comedy to cope with the situation while it only based on actual events while one of our actors was actually there etc. i do not have a problem with any of these points. many superb fictional and factual dramas have come out of the japanese p. o. w. camp experience represent king rat and tenko and merry christmas mr. lawrence and bridge on the river kwai and paradise road and empire of the sun and blood oath and and a town like alice. black comedy has often been used successfully in p. o. w dramas represent life is beautiful and the great escape and seven beauties and stalag 17 and the colditz story and and even hogan heroes. so why is changi a monumental failure.  the acting in changi is uniformly excellent and the music and cinematography is good  it is the writing and direction that have let it down. every scene seemed to give me waves of deja vu. when anthony hayes is made to stand in the blazing sun and i thought didn not i see alec guinness do this in bridge on the river kwai. the sudden flashes into surreal song and dance brought back dennis potter singing detective and but without the finesse. this borrowing happened so often and it smacked of lazy writing by cut and paste and rather than homage. the constant intercutting between the past and present stories left me unable to concentrate on either. flash forward and flash back can be a useful tool  here it left me distanced from characters and where intensity was called for. the ausiness is overdone  every conversation seemed to include stone the bloody crows and such and that i was saying i get the point and i know theyre aussies. cultural stereotyping extended to the british and japanese too sadistic young japanese officer while uptight british officer while wiser japanese commandant while fun loving and rascally aussies etc. i thought i was watching hogan heroes on the river kwai. after 3 episodes i am tuning out. 
changi is an australian comedy or drama set in the world war 2 japanese prisoner of war camp of that name. the story cuts between past events and and the present day and when the aged veterans plan a reunion. this is a much publicised and controversial miniseries and here in australia. the budget ran over ($6. 5 million aust. dollars) while historians and veterans criticised it authenticity while and critics pilloried the uneasy mix of comedy and drama (shades of pearl harbor). series writer john doyle (half of the successful roy and h. g. comedy team) and has tried to defend himself with comments about the characters are composites of actual people while the troops used comedy to cope with the situation while it only based on actual events while one of our actors was actually there etc. i do not have a problem with any of these points. many superb fictional and factual dramas have come out of the japanese p. o. w. camp experience represent king rat and tenko and merry christmas mr. lawrence and bridge on the river kwai and paradise road and empire of the sun and blood oath and and a town like alice. black comedy has often been used successfully in p. o. w dramas represent life is beautiful and the great escape and seven beauties and stalag 17 and the colditz story and and even hogan heroes. so why is changi a monumental failure.  the acting in changi is uniformly excellent and the music and cinematography is good  it is the writing and direction that have let it down. every scene seemed to give me waves of deja vu. when anthony hayes is made to stand in the blazing sun and i thought didn not i see alec guinness do this in bridge on the river kwai. the sudden flashes into surreal song and dance brought back dennis potter singing detective and but without the finesse. this borrowing happened so often and it smacked of lazy writing by cut and paste and rather than homage. the constant intercutting between the past and present stories left me unable to concentrate on either. flash forward and flash back can be a useful tool  here it left me distanced from characters and where intensity was called for. the ausiness is overdone  every conversation seemed to include stone the bloody crows and such and that i was saying i get the point and i know theyre aussies. cultural stereotyping extended to the british and japanese too sadistic young japanese officer while uptight british officer while wiser japanese commandant while fun loving and rascally aussies etc. i thought i was watching hogan heroes on the river kwai. after 3 episodes i am tuning out. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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