In the war
movie, The Bridge on the River
Kwai (1957), at the end Major Warden has a brief dialog with the women
porters.
The women back away from him as he exclaims:
I had to do it. They might
have been captured alive. It was the only
thing to
do!
I don't understand this
part of the film. At least it did not appear that he was trying to fire the weapon at
the commandos (Shears and Joyce). In fact the only time an explosion occurs near them is
after they are dead and a explosion lands near Colonel Nicholson.
Answer
However, if you watch it again, he did not know they
were dead. His dialog about them being captured alive was the give
away.
The scenes where they were instructing the younger
commando that he would need to be able to kill gives up a bit of this. He was able to
kill Saito but not the Colonel. Each of the commandos needed to have the ability to kill
in close quarters.
And killing the Colonel was required to
save the mission.
He was apologizing to the two women who
loved those men that died. He just wasn't aware when he fired they were already
dead.
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