The Wind Cannot Read

Dirk Bogarde's parts for Ralph Thomas are not among his best work,by a long shot.Drippy,the precedent user says ,and I can sadly find litlle fault with the opinion expressed.Besides ,the screenplay seems to have been written by chance:in its first part,the movie is pure bad soap opera,in the wake of Logan's superior "Sayonara"(1957) -the Japanese tongue is one of the most difficult in the world,but after a few weeks,Bogarde and his mates can speak in a very workmanlike way-where implausibilities abound (the female teacher is not the least one!).But the second part,which is roughly a war movie, verges on incoherence:there's the obligatory wicked cruel Japanese officer,and the bad news about Bogarde's love comes at the most awkward moment.This leads to an ending à la "a farewell to arms".The "poetic" prologue and epilogue are overkill.This forgotten movie has gone with the wind,which,as anybody knows,cannot read.