The length of this movie is very long, a total of three hours and fifty minutes. I divided it into many parts to finish it smoothly. The movie itself is divided into upper and lower halves, and there is a reminder of the rest time in the middle of the playback. The main axis of the romance between the blond Lawrence and the Arab revolves around the British officer Lawrence, a British officer during World War I who was ordered to go to the desert to coordinate the Arab tribes to rise up and fight with the British against the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The film opens with death asking the question "Who is Lawrence?" At the beginning of the movie, the blond Lawrence rides on the motorcycle, and then the speed gets faster and he gets into a car accident. At the funeral venue, a reporter asked about Lawrence. It was unexpectedly discovered that everyone had different evaluations of him, and the praise and criticism were mixed, so the movie entered the memory. Lawrence is a British officer who is completely unsuitable for military life, romantic and uncontrolled, so his superiors assigned him a task to go to the desert to coordinate various Arab tribes and participate in the British attack on Turkey. Even in the British army where he could drink afternoon tea, play billiards and chat every day, Lawrence, who likes freedom by nature, is still tired of the boring military life. He has many romantic imaginations about the desert. After receiving the order, Lawrence Going to the desert calmly, but did not expect this journey to herald the emergence of a hero and the endless frenzy brought about by war. Behind the war is actually politics. The plot line of the film is actually very simple. For nearly four hours, the story revolves around the character of Lawrence. He travels alone to the Arabian desert and uses a naive and romantic imagination to interpret the Arab world. And the whole war, so he succeeded in connecting the various tribes of Arabia in unexpected ways, and persuaded them to cross the desert of death, attack from the rear, and finally successfully lead everyone, destroy the railway, and finally take Turkey. The capital, Damascus, even entered Damascus one day earlier than the British army. In the process, Lawrence became a hero of the Arab tribes and a well-known military strategist passed down by word of mouth in the British army. In the middle of the film, Lawrence was once confused by his victory. He was convinced that he was a blond, blue-eyed and white-skinned Arab hero, and he longed to bring freedom and wealth to the Arabs, but he did not think that his soul was so fragile and could not. Endure the cruelty of war and the truth of human nature. On the battlefield, in order to survive, he personally killed the lives of two young Arab followers. In order to maintain justice among the various tribes, Lawrence was forced to kill the Arab soldiers he rescued; because of his anger, he frantically ordered the Arabs to ride The soldiers slaughtered many of the Turks who had surrendered. It was not until the end that Lawrence discovered that all this was just a political wrestling between Britain, France and Arabia, and he became a pawn, and many people died of his innocence. At the end of the movie, Lawrence, who was promoted to colonel, drove towards the rolling yellow sand with a blank expression in the car driven by the soldier. "Lawrence of Arabia" is a movie that reflects on the nature of war. There are many interesting metaphors in the movie, including Lawrence's Arab friend Ali, who keeps trying to understand what politics is, but unconsciously becomes more and more political. The film also constantly conveys the absurdity of politics through the words of other characters. The insanity and madness of the heroes eventually became the co-lord of the Arabs in the face of this war. When they entered Damascus, Lawrence discovered that what these Arabs wanted was not what Lawrence thought of not being enslaved and being able to control their own homeland. For freedom, what many Arabs want is wealth, water, and even dominance over other tribes. So the Arabs in Damascus eventually became a group of bandits. At this moment, Lawrence could no longer hide the doubts in his heart. Facing the British military, which he always disagreed with, and the fact that he embraced him as a communist, he did not understand the real At the end of the movie, Lawrence lost his self-identity, and his life was lost. He also predicted Lawrence's life invisibly, and would eventually go to nothingness. "Lawrence of Arabia" is indeed a movie of great historical significance. A large number of troops were used in the movie, which are said to be real troops provided by the king of Jordan at that time. The film became Peter O'Toole's fame. Before him, the crew asked superstar Marlon Brando, but he refused to participate in the show. And Peter Otto successfully interprets a hero with a romantic Don Quixote feel, and in the second half of the movie, he successfully makes the hero fall into the madness of self-identification. There are almost no female characters in the whole film, and there is no female dialogue for three hours and fifty minutes. This has also become an alternative record in the history of film. Today, when feminism is in power, I think this record is probably very difficult. break in. The gender identity of the hero Lawrence, but some critics have raised interesting speculations about it; in the film, Lawrence constantly questions his self-identity, starting as a British military officer, then becoming an Arab hero, and at the end of the film, he again To feel deep sympathy for Turkey, who was attacked by him, this shows the soft personality of "Lawrence" which is different from the characters in other movies; in addition, Lawrence's limbs in the movie are actually very soft And, even with some femininity, in the latter part of the film, Lawrence is captured by a Turkish officer for his self-confidence, the officer, while torturing Lawrence, removes his robe and strokes Lawrence's body, this moment Lawrence suddenly turned from panic to anger, and shot back the next second. Some film critics believe that these passages imply Lawrence's gender identity. In that era, the struggle between countries was a political consideration. Only Lawrence felt the harm behind and eventually collapsed. This is actually a Lawrence's metaphor for self-gender identity. I personally think this is a very interesting interpretation of hypertext, and many clues can really be found in the movie. To sum up, the special historical background, epic scenes, war scenes that took a year and a half and was shot with real troops, the turning point of the protagonist in the movie, the realistic depiction of the so-called heroes, war and politics, all of the above Elements have created classic works in the history of cinema.
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