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A young white man with brown hair, wearing khaki clothing and dog tags, crouches in the jungle

A young soldier holding an open book and a young woman with a flower behind her ear look at each other in a bookstore

A young man with short dark hair wearing a khaki shirt looks out of frame

"He doesn't let you go. He grabs you by the throat, and you're in whether you like the film or you don't like the film, you're made to watch it. It's deliberate."

A young man and a young woman holding a drink standing in a dimly lit dance hall with streamers decorating the ceiling

A man in his 70s wearing a suit with medals on his lapel is flanked by a group of people

"There's something quite exotic — but quite gothic as well — in the descriptions and that's what I was interested in; not a literal interpretation of the jungle."
A Japanese guard speaks to two Australian POWs, more shirtless POWs in the background

A young Indigenous soldier smoking a cigarette

"It's [about] trying to keep these stories and this legacy very real and close."

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