The film is intertwined between reality and the past. Today, the dying, imperfect "British patient" and the passionate Amarsh in the past appear alternately. They are the same person, yet so different. A person, with difficulty opening and closing his mutilated mouth, makes a sad voice, holding up the work of the father of history with his mutilated hands, but it evokes memories that he does not want to recall. A person, facing the wife of a colleague and friend, cannot suppress the love in his heart, passionately expressing the purest love regardless of the world. From Imash to the "British Patient", in the middle is the blooming and withering of the flower of love. This process is a process full of choices again and again. When Amarsh meets Catherine, he has to choose whether to love or not love his friend's lover. Catherine has to choose, where should she go about love and morality? When people finally put aside everything in love, they have to choose between the short-lived passion or the love for a lifetime. When Catherine waited for Amash’s rescue in the cave, Amash had to make a choice, to choose from a political stand. Should we lead the enemy of our motherland-Germany for the survival of my lover? They make choices, and their choices make them more and more in love, but they fall into the next more painful choice. In reality, the same is true. Hannah has to decide whether to stay for the dying "British patient" and have lost her loved one many times. She has to decide whether to fall in love with the Indian bomb destroyer Kip, the one When the spy with his finger cut off finally finds the "enemy", he has to decide whether to kill the "English patient", especially after he listens to the tragic love story.
We can find that this time choice is based on love, and in the end, for the individual who chooses, love overwhelms everything, overwhelming morality, politics, race, status, and hatred. When Aimash tried to save Jia Flynn gave the map of Africa to the German army, and when he drove a British plane filled with German gasoline to save his lover, this conflict of love and morality was particularly embarrassing. Amarsh drove to the cave, but it was too late. Catherine was already dead. He had nothing but pain, and only set sail with the body of his lover until he fell and became an "English patient". In this film, love is like this. It wins the individual and loses to the world. When Amarsh promised to Catherine that he would return to save her, he embarked on a process of confronting the world and destiny for personal love. He tried his best, but he "lost". In the end, his tears were shocking, and tragic love is always moving. In turbulent times, love is dangerous, just as the love between Hannah and Kip has to face the test of life and death in reality. However, all these constraints can hardly prevent people from continuing a moving love. In this film, it is more about presentation rather than a discussion of morality. It shows how much human love can be thrown away in turbulent times for human love. These loves are beautiful and sad. Just like the background of the story, that magnificent desert, naked, vast, bleak, full of dangers, but it does not have so many "thorns", it can let people run freely, in the desert, Amash embraces Catherine's body walked towards the plane, looking heavy and detached, their love surpassed the borders of the country on the map he had drawn.
"I have nothing to ask for. I just want to follow you on a stroll in heaven, bring some friends, and go to a paradise without a map," Catherine wrote before he died. The meaning of love for the individual is here, just as Amarsh, who has become an "English patient", said to the spy who tried to avenge him and killed him, "You can't kill me, my heart is dead." Amash asked nothing more, love is gone, and he should go, so at the end when Hannah was about to inject him with medicine, he again reached out his mutilated hand to knock over the pill box and push a tube of medicine. In front of Hannah, when Hannah knew what he meant, and opened the drugs one by one to prepare to send the "English patients" to heaven, Amash said weakly, "Thank you". At that moment, Hannah cried bitterly. I also shed tears, listening to Catherine's masterpiece, he left safely. In the kingdom of heaven, he must have met Catherine who was waiting for him. They had waited too long, and they could finally know and love each other in a happy land without a map. For them, love surpassed life and death. The people who were alive continued to live. Hannah sat on and headed to Florence. Can she meet Kip again? I hope she can, they have been waiting too long.
"British Patient" is a film full of humanistic care. It shows the purest feelings of human beings. It shows how desperate people can be to throw away the shackles that humans have made for themselves for the most authentic love of mankind. I think it is also the reason why the feelings it shows, even though there are so many embarrassing conflicts with morals, still move many people. It also won many awards at the 1996 Oscars. Perhaps this is also an expression of it. The affirmation of the concept.
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