While Lawrence was asleep, Ali burned his English uniform, and the next day Lawrence changed into Arabic robes. Lawrence accepted the Arabian robes with ease, which made it easier for him to ride a camel and walk in the desert more smoothly.
In the film, Lawrence starts out wearing an ill-fitting British uniform, a disheveled dress that violates military discipline, a loose belt, and a crooked hat. This means that he does not really belong to the army. Although he joined the army, he did not go to the battlefield, but was doing unimportant things in the basement of Cairo. Friends felt that although the basement was stuffy, it was better than the trenches on the Western Front, but Lawrence was undecided. For such a smart, knowledgeable and ambitious young man, underappreciated talent is the greatest torture. He is far away from the indifferent England, but still sits on the bench in Cairo. So he behaved willfully, even wildly, and the general in the army thought he was a lunatic.
With a noble rank, but not a real noble. Lawrence's illegitimate status cannot inherit his father's title, which makes him both a nobleman and not a nobleman. What a resemblance to Siegfried Sassoon! He was infected with the casual, free and easy habits of the nobles, but he did not despise the life of the nobles who drank and waited to die. I guess he was the group who volunteered to join the army. Like Sassoon, he is by no means heterosexual and can only suppress his true orientation. I guess he is the one who sleeps in the club every night. Lawrence is in England, just Lawrence.
Lawrence changed into a robe, what his British colleagues called "ridiculous". Lawrence changed into an inappropriate uniform, which his British colleagues called a "freak". He wanted to be Arab, he liked the purity of the desert, but "no one wears uniform forever". When Lawrence forgot his origins, he paid a heavy price.
A very interesting place in the movie, Lawrence has been suppressing the original desire in his heart and hates killing. The first time Ali was seen, his guides were killed simply because they drank from the well of Ali's tribe. Lawrence is disdainful to tell Ah his name because he thinks Ali is barbaric. When he returned to the desert again, Lawrence was humiliated by the Turks, he fell into a slaughtering frenzy, and the one who could not see it became Ali, a prince from a barbaric tribe. Ali found Lawrence covered in blood. At this time, who is the savage party? The one who can define civilization and barbarism must be the one with power. The British proudly showed off their "self-discipline" to the Arabs, and their advancement, but it was the British who made the Arabs lose their freedom and the right to choose. Was Lawrence really selfless in helping the Arabs to occupy Damascus? In fact, the movie answered, "I'm just a normal person." If Lawrence, who has just stepped into the desert, still has full of blood and unrealistic fantasies, at the end of the movie, he already understands that he is just a pawn of the empire, an ordinary person.
Arab makes Lawrence Lawrence, but Arab makes Lawrence question why he is Lawrence. The desert is pure, but man is never.
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