The Bridge on the River Kwai is a movie about middle-aged nihilists coping with getting older any way they know how: by wearing a slick red Sam Browne belt and crying a lot, by getting super intense about the punishment box, by pec workouts and malingering. That's not its primary point, of course – it's a war movie, specifically a War is Hell movie, very specifically that rare War is Hell movie that balances its themes with a recognition that World War II was a morally meaningful conflict. I saw...