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"Love is always a bitch"
Isobel 2022-03-20 09:01:22
For a film like The English Patient about love at war, a tragic ending was almost doomed from the start. It's like falling in love with a married man, just like falling in love with a husband's friend. Love is always impacting your heart door all the time, until you open the heart door, only to find that another door has been permanently closed. It is like the lingering patient, which is pitiful and unbearable, but in the end it will die. The little Indian guy in the movie is very handsome, and I think the poor breast archaeologist is not as good-looking as the nurse.
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Extended Reading
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Almásy: There is no God... but I hope someone looks after you.
Madox: Just in case you're interested, it's called the suprasternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over.
[Heads away but turns back]
Madox: You'll never come to Dorset.
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Almásy: What do you love?
Katharine Clifton: What do I love?
Almásy: Say everything.
Katharine Clifton: Hm, let's see... Water. Fish in it. And hedgehogs; I love hedgehogs.
Almásy: And what else?
Katharine Clifton: Marmite - I'm addicted. And baths. But not with other people. Islands. Your handwriting. I could go on all day.
Almásy: Go on all day.
Katharine Clifton: My husband.
Almásy: What do you hate most?
Katharine Clifton: A lie. What do you hate most?
Almásy: Ownership. Being owned. When you leave, you should forget me.
[she adopts a look of disgust, pushes him gently away to get out of the tub, picks up her tattered dress and leaves]