Lawrence = poet + soldier + idealist, he has lived an unparalleled path. He is as talented as Yang Weili, mature and adventurous in military conception, also hates killing, and likes to achieve the greatest victory with the smallest sacrifice. His victory is based on his genius and fantasies. His unique personality charm is unforgettable. Although everyone knows that he is arrogant, he has to rely on him to win. In the end, he was betrayed by both parties, just like the modern version of Joan of Arc. The difference is that he finally awoke and died relatively peacefully.
Lawrence is an illegitimate child. This kind of life experience makes him stubborn and rebellious, looking cynical and ridiculous. His boss has no choice but to send him to the front line to reduce his destructiveness. But what they didn't expect was that this was exactly what Lawrence was looking forward to day and night in the dull headquarters in Cairo. While others were wasting their time in the officers’ club, Lawrence contemplated on the edge of the map. So he is the most suitable candidate. Dryden, a silver-haired, treacherous consultant, strongly recommended Lawrence, and finally made his sleepy dragon fly into the sky. Dryden knew him well, but he was a politician. Victory was just a means. When Lawrence was exhausted and exhausted, he would no longer lend a helping hand to him. (However, he will not kill Lawrence himself, but let Mr. Commander do it. This is where he is brilliant. No wonder he has been as stable as a
mountain after two commanders.) Everyone in the movie is planning for themselves, Except for Lawrence. Maybe it's just a movie, but conscious sublimation is not so hateful.
The struggle for rights in the movie can be said to be extremely complicated and sinister. The fledgling Lawrence is only 25 or 26 years old. If it were not for the extremely strong will, the wisdom of adapting to changes, and the ability to control everything, he would definitely fail, because none of the objects he had to deal with was entangled. On the one hand, Prince Fraser intends to ask for British assistance to deal with Turkey and regain lost ground. On the other hand, he wants to escape Britain's insatiable desire for control; Oda Abutaye can turn around at any time for money, and his desires are uncontrollable, although he also admires Lawrence; The most difficult thing is his base camp, the jealous, angry, and skeptical boss, who is waiting to see his lively colleagues without sympathy, followed by the new boss who uses him with shame and tries to use him as a scapegoat. His only friend is the Arabs, because the ultimate goal of this idealistic genius soldier is to help them be independent, free from the control of the United Kingdom and not bullied by any country. This idea can be said to be worthy of treason in the colonial era.
General Ali is his best friend among the Arabs, and he has a certain symbolic meaning. He is a character I love very much because he is handsome, has a strong personality like Lawrence, and is a real man. When I met Lawrence for the first time, he deliberately provoke Lawrence with grace, so that the always calm latter couldn't help being angry, and his ability was evident. He has the typical toughness, shrewdness and obscurity of the Arab tribes, coupled with his own elegance (the scene where he picks up the compass in Lawrence's hand with a camel vine is simply fascinating), Lawrence has also heard of him in the army. Da Ming, so I thought he would be more reasonable. He had planned to leave Lawrence on his own, but after listening to Lawrence's sensible scolding, he took the camel back and showed him the way diligently. After being rejected, he didn't get angry and left with a smile. After meeting again, he appreciated Lawrence's extraordinary talents and thought that he was far above himself, so he threw himself to the ground. From then on, he stood by Lawrence's side in every war. he. This is a precious sentiment that Lawrence could not find among the people of the British Command.
The difference between Lawrence and Ali is that he is a person full of contradictions. This prevented him from living the relatively pure life he dreamed of. His reason and sensibility are always at war, because although he has genius military talents, he has not experienced a real war. Any bloodshed will make him confused and fall into a constant battle of guilt and highest interests. At the beginning, he regarded the death of an insignificant person like Mount Tai. For example, when he crossed the desert, he saved one of his men from the edge of death and almost died. This earned him the respect of Ali and everyone. This is not necessarily a show, because Lawrence's consistent performance is to hate killing. Later, he killed people like hemp, even the unnecessary ones, even though he used violence to control violence. After he commanded the complete annihilation of Turkish soldiers who set fire to them, he couldn't even speak when he watched his bloody hands. Ali tried desperately to find him, and when he saw his appearance, he turned around and left with anger.
When he first entered the desert, Lawrence was as happy and conceited as a bird just flying out of his cage. He has a civilized view of good and evil and a concept of equality, opposes killing, is proud of reason and restraint, and is a bit pedantic like almost all English gentlemen. But the difference between him and the people at the Cairo headquarters is that he really regards these freedoms, equality and fraternity as his own standards of doing things, and uses superhuman wisdom and flawless conduct to practice, so that he has full of distrust of the colonists. He was also influenced and believed and supported him as an Englishman. In other words, he used the standards of a saint to demand himself, but in fact, his situation and status did not allow him to implement this standard to the end, and in the end he could only taste loneliness alone. This kind of loneliness, in any period of history, favors some outstanding people who are not understood, such as Qu Yuan, Rousseau, and Cao Xueqin.
Lawrence has done several beautiful things, including persuading Prince Fraser to give him fifty people to cross the desert of the Sea of Death, and then persuading the leader of Haweta to Oda Abu Taye to take down Akaba in one fell swoop; and then almost It was a single-handedly traversing the Sinai Peninsula, returning to the Cairo headquarters after nine deaths, bringing a large number of weapons to the Arab tribes to fight against the Turks; blowing up railway supply lines, plundering Turkish supplies, paving the way for the attack on Damascus, and so on. However, his final effort was to give Damascus to the Arabs. This was the end of his adventure career, an empty perfect ending. His original purpose of giving everything (including the most reluctant killing) was for this moment, to return the things that originally belonged to the Arabs to the British before they got their hands on them. He wants them to be free and equal. What he never thought was that the people he helped were just like what he had previously angrily condemned. Although brave and good at fighting, they were narrow, backward, and short-sighted. Expelled forever. Infighting, splitting, accepting wooing, and secretly colluding, but the same happened on schedule. The so-called "Thin mud does not stick to the wall"/Yes. In the political clown's spoils-sharing meeting, Lawrence's efforts were not only wasted, he also became a victim, because he was used up, and his proposal was something Prince Fraser and others could not even think of. They still don't see the best interests, so they think that Lawrence who advocates this way is no different from a dangerous man. In order to get a piece of the British people (a water plant), it is better to throw his stumbling block away. Arabs with a slight conscience remember Lawrence's benefits, and Prince Fraser himself said to his back with shame, "I owe you a lot, and I can't repay it." When his good friend Ali was in the beginning of the Arabian Parliament, he saw Lawrence sitting in a messy town hall and dared not be with him, because he knew that the Arabs owed Lawrence too much. As a friend of Lawrence, he could only express his guilt in silent tears; at the same time, he made up his mind to stay in Damascus to study politics (Lawrence: a very inferior profession), hoping to welcome him with a new look in the future A new dawn for Arabia and the world.
Lawrence is not perfect. But no matter what age he is, he will always be remembered and called "the most extraordinary person". Including his friends, enemies, general acquaintances, and even strangers.
Wonderful lines and scenes can be said to be everywhere. Although the movie is very long, it can make people see the end from beginning to end with holding their breath.
"Five hundred Arabs are five hundred knives."
"I don't know if you are behaving poorly or just mentally retarded."
"I am often troubled by this too."
"One of the two people in there is half crazy. , The other is rarely shameless."
"Why did you come to the desert?"
"Because it is very clean."
Yes, Lawrence, in the Sahara Desert, which is sometimes hot and sometimes cold, you and your Arabs are both It's so clean.
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