“The English Patient”: Love beyond morality in the war years

The film “The English Patient” is a film adapted from a novel.

The film is co-starred by Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche and others.

“The English Patient” tells a love story that transcends morality and affects the situation of war.

Although the story of the male protagonist Almásy falling in love with other people’s wives is a bit too much to us, the romance and pain in the film are still unforgettable.

“The English Patient” Plot Summary:

During World War II, a British plane was shot down by the Germans in the Egyptian desert. The local people sent the seriously injured and disfigured pilot to the British medical station.

Because he has lost part of his memory, he can only be called “English Patient”.

The story begins with him and Hana (Juliette Binoche), a female nurse who volunteered to take care of him.

Hana voluntarily stayed there to take care of the severely injured and endangered wounded.

In the film, along with the memories of the wounded and the exchanges between the characters that appeared later, we can see the special love story of the archaeologist Count Almásy in the war years.

Almásy was originally a man without borders and had no intention of participating in the war.

But the arrival of the pilot who surveyed and mapped Egypt for the British army with his wife Katharine (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) changed everything.

Almásy fell in love with this beautiful and intellectual girl hopelessly.

The girl also likes such an elegant gentleman because Almásy is very proficient in literature and music.

But the development of everything in the war years was beyond expectations.

Katharine and her husband crashed in front of Almásy. Almásy traveled through the desert for three days to find the British base for his lover.

But Almásy was considered by the British army to be a German because of his name. In desperation, he could only escape and trade with the German army on a classified military map.

Finally Almásy returned to the desert with German gasoline.

At this time, Katharine had already died in the cave, but the letters she left expressed her endless love for Almásy.

At the end of “The English Patient”, World War II is over, and Hana should return to her life.

Almásy asked Hana to inject herself with an overdose and ended her life.

Before Almásy died, Hana read for him the last love letter Katharine wrote at the last moment of his life.

Hana moves towards a new life, and Almásy’s love will be silent again.

Film Reviews:

Except for the plot of Almásy cheating with someone else’s wife, there are still many highlights of this movie.

“The English Patient” portrays war and love very well.

Both the love between Almásy and Katharine or Hana and the minesweeper captain are very helpless.

The film reveals the characteristics of that period everywhere.

In the age when life is not worth money, love is even more precious, and some people have no idea about the death of their lovers on the battlefield.

Even after the war was over, the captain of minesweeping had to take the risk to eliminate the local crisis. This feeling naturally broke up.

After all, no one can accept his lover risking his life to work every day.

The scene between Almásy and Katharine is more complicated.

What kind of complicated emotions a man sent important military information to the Nazi German army for his lover.

Risking the world’s ignorance, I can’t say that he did it right, but he is indeed a sentimental man.

Conclusion:

“The English Patient” is a very controversial movie.

The values ​​of the movie are not very appropriate to us now, and there are restrictive elements such as torture and burns in the movie, so this movie is only suitable for adult audiences.

Originally this kind of love is more suitable for ladies to watch, but the burns on the male lead’s face are really scary.

I didn’t show a picture of the burn. As for the details, it depends on how you think about it.