Because you love someone, you fall in love with a foreign land.

Verda 2022-04-15 09:01:08

For work reasons, after staying in Sahara for more than half a year, I clicked on the title of the film.
The endless desert in the movie and the slowly moving camel team. Outside the screen, you can feel the harshness of nature, but Bell's fortitude, wit, courage and sincerity are more vividly revealed. The story spans Britain, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt... The differences between the Middle East and Western civilizations are constantly colliding and blending in the details of clothing, home furnishing, food, and even speech and behavior, but each has its own meaning. In Bell's life, the two male diplomats who are unlovable and unattainable are equally crazy about love and gentle as water, but their personalities are completely different. The diary filled with sandstorms and blood and tears that ran through the film and throughout Bell's life forever retained that passionate time and became a distant bright star in the Arabian night sky.

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Queen of the Desert quotes

  • Florance Bell: You will not scare the young men with intelligence.

    Gertrude Bell: How do I do that? I can't play dumb.

    Florance Bell: Just listen to what they have to say, and smile.

    Gertrude Bell: That will be hard.

    Florance Bell: Gertrude...

  • Hugh Bell: You were only 5 years, and you were already reading voraciously. And someone stupidly showed you Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbook.

    Gertrude Bell: I remember the one with the parachute!

    Florance Bell: Who ever would need a parachute?

    Gertrude Bell: Everyone. Everyone needs a parachute.