Lawrence of Arabia begins with Lawrence's death as the beginning of the entire film. There is a reason to start with his death , and a hero always starts with his death . Lawrence's bronze statue was placed in St. Paul's Cathedral, and his deeds also began with this bronze statue.
The beginning of the film explains the big war background of the story: the Arab tribe Bedouin attacked the Turkish fortress, and a war is about to begin. When Lawrence received the news, there was a classic picture - Lawrence put out the fire on the match with his bare hands. This image has an indelible foreshadowing of the entire film and Lawrence's personality. When asked Williamsport mystery, Lawrence replied: "secret tactic that will not care about the pain."
Lawrence is one of those people who doesn't care about pain, when another officer, Mike George Berhardt, said to Lawrence "You're always going to get into trouble once, it's just flesh and blood." Yes, throughout the film , Lawrence wants to join Arab racial independence and national independence as an ordinary person. He doesn't care about the pain, he has the tenacity to fight and lead the people to win the war, but he is always an ordinary person . All his components are just flesh and blood, and he will always make trouble once. The "mischief" mentioned here may be what Lawrence called "mischief" as a historical tragedy.
Then let's take a concrete look at how this tragedy of Lawrence is reflected in the entire film. What I want to talk about the most is the death and self-identification part . Of course, the whole film, as an epic work, also talked about politics, survival, ethnicity and even some gay themes. But I will focus on the several deaths that Lawrence experienced and the shattering of his self-identity .
The background of the character Lawrence is given in the film is that he is an illegitimate child , which is inconsistent with history. The addition of such a background in the film to a certain extent provides a reasonable inner explanation for Lawrence and his heroic feat. That is Lawrence's desire to gain personal respect for what an officer did in Arabia, for what he did to the Arab people's national independence, and for his illegitimate son. After arriving in Arabia, the first problem Lawrence faced was national identity . Lawrence breaks through this sense of disapproval through the death of the first man, a story that takes place on Lawrence's path into the Bedouin tribe and their desire to attack Akbar from behind. On the way, an Arab fell off a camel, and Lawrence turned around to save him despite everyone's obstruction. You must know that without a strong sense of direction and a bit of fate in the desert, he would never have come back. But Lawrence did it. When Lawrence returned to the Bedouin, he said, " Nothing is doomed. " But it was also this Arab who was rescued that Lawrence fired the first shot. This is because the Arab killed another tribe, and Lawrence needed his death to settle the conflict between the two tribes. Otherwise, the military campaign against Akaba will be in vain. So the life he saved was ultimately lost in his hands. The first death was when he entered Arabia as an Englishman in search of racial identity .
The second one who died was his servant in Arabia . When Lawrence led two tribes to capture the lower Akaba, he needed to report the news to the British army and get their military supplies, so he needed to cross the desert. During the crossing, one of his servants, Dude, was buried in this desert because of quicksand. When he arrived in Cairo he met the British generals in Arab attire. So we can think of this death as Lawrence trying to gain British approval .
Later, another of his servants, Farage, could not move with the troops because of the detonator. Lawrence ended his life with a pistol. So far, the two servants Lawrence first knew to take care of his life were killed. However, Lawrence's identity as the leader of the Arabs was not recognized by these tribes. When the Battle of Damascus was finally launched, Lawrence took up the pistol and shot the Turks. At the same time, the belief he held in his heart, the reverence for life, was also shot to death by him. He shot this time so that the Arabs could personally retake their capital. He wanted to integrate into the Arab tribes to gain their spiritual identity, not their identity. But in the end the government still did not recognize him, and he went away as if he had just come to Arabia.
We looked back and sent Lawrence to Dayden in Arabia and said something like " great things start with small beginnings. " Lawrence led the Arabs to national independence. Arab began, and it also began when Lawrence wanted to gain his personal identity. Likewise, we can say that the Arab Revolution started with every Arab who is spiritually independent. The film made a hero, and a tragic hero. Lawrence led the Arabs before Allenby launched a campaign to seize the capital Damascus, but the Arab provisional government established by him
Lawrence could not really be recognized. The tragedy also lies in the fact that for this battle, for the final result, the belief that oneself adhered to was personally executed. So at the beginning of the film, Lawrence is killed in a car accident on a country road while driving a motorcycle. Exactly the way this tragedy deserves to die.
Whether Lawrence was a hero or an ordinary person, his death made a conclusion on his life.
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