American critic Herman G. Weinberg said: "How a story is told is part of that story. The same story can be told well or badly. It can be good or great, it depends on who is telling the story."
This is Anthony Minghella telling the story. It's heartwarming, thrilling, and unforgettable.
Two lines: Amarsh fell in love with his colleague's wife; Hannah fell in love with the Indian lieutenant of mine clearance. The two stories are intertwined in a spiral. His lover is dead, he is also on the edge of life, her love has just begun - in two and a half hours, we experience their love, earth-shattering, romantic and warm, all because of war And quite different.
Many people remember the grief-stricken moment when Emmashu wrapped Catherine out of the cave; the candlelight in the conch shell, the frescoes in the church, the moment of joy; the happy moment of carrying the hideous patient in the heavy rain; ----- Too many memories remain.
Such a perfect combination of war and ordinary love.
2 Nationality
Amarsh once chatted with his friend Mardo before the war, saying that they used to be invisible to nationality. The war has begun, nationality has become so important, friend and foe, life and death.
At the beginning of the film, the stubborn soldier asked about the dying Amarsh, who was beyond recognition, about his nationality. He refused to say that he was named "the English patient"; and when he walked out of the cave for three days and three nights When he was obsessed with going back to save Catherine, the British soldiers identified him as a German because of his strange name and multilingualism, and arrested him; he made what he thought was a normal transaction with the Germans, and took Catherine's body on the plane. When returning, because it was a British plane, he was strafed by the Germans, and he himself was dying.
What he hates most is "ownership and be owned", he is afraid of being possessed and possessed, but he is still possessed by love.
He is afraid of being labeled, he does not recognize big labels such as country and war, and he pursues the freedom in his mind without the restrictions of these labels. However, as a social person, he is indeed too naive.
Hannah said maybe bomb Bach, the Germans wouldn't put bombs. hehe. The demining lieutenant still found the bomb, Bach belongs to the world, and the fascists want to destroy the world.
Catherine's last words: "that's what I've wanted : to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on the earth without maps." The earth without maps of universal brotherhood dream
his friend Ma Duo, because of his betrayal Suicide by drinking bullets. How many Allied soldiers died for this. The fingerless Avenger was just one of many.
3 British Aggressive
Royal Geographical Society, went to North Africa to investigate, draw maps, where did the British footprints go? It can be said to be adventurous, or it can be said to be aggression.
Consider our national history.
Just read a small report: Greece's new culture minister says Britain should return the Parthenon marble statues to Athens that were shipped out of Greece in the 19th century by the then British ambassador.
It seems that it is not just to dig treasures here.
4 In the
opening of the film language , a pen dipped in ink simply outlines a graceful human figure on the stone. Catherine said she likes water and likes swimming. The cave that Aymarsh discovered was full of murals of swimmers. Everything points to: freedom.
At the end of the film, Hannah is sitting in the car leaving the monastery. There are large shadows of trees in the sky, passing by, the sun shining in through the gaps, and finally a clear blue sky. her new life.
Oh, these great films, Once Upon a Time in America, The Burning Years, The English Patient, Doctor Zhivag—
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