I haven’t written a movie review for a long time. I probably only feel like writing on a whim like this. I like to watch classic movies, so I chose the movie "The English Patient" with a sense of ritual.

The name of "The English Patient" is a bit confusing. Since the film has been narrating the entire story using the present tense intertwined with memories, I didn’t understand the whole story until the end of the film. It opens with mysterious music, paintings of historical sites and magnificent desert scenery. An airplane flies in the desert at sunset. The woman's white skirt is still flying. Falling, flak, badly wounded pilot. Let me tell you the plot of the story first. The entire film is a forbidden love story with World War II as the background. The male protagonist is a Hungarian count named Amossi. Before the start of World War II, he served as a member of the British Royal Geographical Survey in North Africa for archeology and terrain surveying. Here he met Royal Airman Kirton and his beautiful wife Catherine. He was fascinated by Catherine's beauty and elegance and fell passionately in love. He stalks her, pursues her, and impresses her with his knowledge, humor, and passionate affection. It can be said that this relationship was against morality from the beginning, and friends’ wives should not be bullied. In a way, he and Catherine did have similar intellectual tastes and were attracted to each other. He pursued Catherine while Cotton was working elsewhere, and they were dependent on each other for life and death during a storm during desert archeology, making this pair of lovers who should not be together gradually gradually Deeply trapped in lust and unable to extricate himself. Catherine was actually under a lot of mental pressure. She deeply blamed herself for her betrayal of her husband, but she could not refuse her feelings for Amosi. The heroine's husband, Cotton, also discovered the betrayal between his wife and her best friend. This poor man had been tolerant. He promised to fly a plane to pick up Amosi who was doing archaeology at the Heritage Cave. When he took his wife to pick up Amossi, The suppressed pain in his heart made him choose to die together and crash the plane into Amosi at full speed. Amossi, who noticed something was wrong in time, dodged the impact. But Mr. Cotton died and Catherine was seriously injured. The male protagonist placed the female protagonist in the cave of historical sites, leaving a flashlight, water and food, and asked her to wait for him while he went to seek rescue. By that time World War II had broken out. He walked around the desert for three days and nights without rest and rushed to the British camp to seek rescue. However, because of his strange name, he was thought to be German and was put into a military vehicle. This made this infatuated man almost collapse. For this reason, he used a trick to kill a British soldier and jump out of the car. When he was desperate, he went to the German military camp and exchanged the confidential map of the British Royal Geographical Survey team. He flew the rescue plane back to Catherine. He kept his promise and came back, but by that time his lover had died. He held Catherine's body in grief. Catherine said in her last words to him that she was willing to take her to the Palace of Winds. He drove the plane with Catherine's body in the desert, because the plane was a British plane owned by his friend Meadow on the survey team. It was hit by the Germans. The hero's whole body was burned and changed beyond recognition. He was rescued by passing Arabs and sent to the British military camp. He pretended to have amnesia. Due to his unknown origin, everyone thought he might be British and called him the British patient. Hannah, a nurse in the army, lost her fiancé and friends one after another due to the war. She believed that she was cursed by fate and that everyone who loved her would die. Sad and lonely, she chose to stay in an abandoned monastery along the way to take care of Amosi alone. The memory of the male protagonist also unfolds simultaneously in the process of taking care of the male protagonist.

The male protagonist, Count Amosi, can be said to be a person who is desperate for love. He fell in love with his best friend's wife, Catherine. In order to save Catherine, he handed the survey team's map to the Germans. His friend, the Englishman Meadow, who had always trusted him, drank a bullet and committed suicide after knowing that it was him who handed the survey team's map to the Germans. It can also be said that he was responsible for the deaths of the Cottons. It can be said that he drove everyone crazy. But the most tragic thing is that this relationship took place during the war, and was stained by the smoke of the war. It not only betrayed friendship, ignored morality, but also compromised national interests. But from a purely emotional point of view, he was just madly in love with Catherine. The most ironic thing is that he himself is a blurr of national boundaries, a Hungarian count, who serves Britain, but betrays Britain by saving his lover. He flew a British plane and used German gasoline and was shot down by the Germans and was treated as a British patient. Because of the war, he lost his rescue just because of his strange name, and the love that seemed to be available regardless of everything was completely shattered. The monastery is isolated from the noise of war. Here, there is only a nurse and a patient, supporting each other and healing each other. Hannah is a kind and innocent girl. She may want to be alone and quiet, but she also wants to treat patients wholeheartedly and forget the pain.

The male protagonist pretended to have amnesia at first, not wanting anyone to know his past, and recalled every moment between him and Catherine day after day, piecing together the broken past. The sound of Catherine playing hopscotch reminded him of North African drumbeats and the stories Catherine had told. He tried getting Hannah to tell the same story and found that it reminded him more of what happened with Catherine. He shared with her a history book he carried with him and the pictures and diary contained in it. During the healing process, someone came, Mousse. He was originally a spy for the British army, but later the map was leaked and the British army was defeated. He was considered to have betrayed the British army and had one of his fingers cut off. Then he kept hurting his people, and finally he found Aimoshi. It was because Amosi gave the map to the Germans that he was wrongfully accused of being a traitor. It can be said that he is the one who uncovered the scars of Aimoshi. But after hearing Amosi's story, he couldn't bear to kill him. There is also a romance in the middle, Hannah and Captain Kip of the demining army. Hannah found a piano in the monastery and started playing. He was stopped by the demining captain who came here to clear mines. They fell in love quickly after that, but what happened before made Hannah afraid of losing her lover again. The Sikh Indian captain of the British Army's demining force also chose to break up with Hannah because his fiancée was in pain after seeing his subordinate killed by a bomb. Hannah didn't hold back either. None of them could afford to lose. Later, after World War II, they carried the patients and reveled in the rain. In that scene, everyone seemed to be released, and the wounds of the war seemed to be healed at that moment. Finally, the male protagonist's memory is approaching, and he recalls the day when he returned to Catherine in the Heritage Cave. He hopes to die like his lover and atone for his actions. He lets Hannah inject him with an overdose of morphine and dies quietly while Hannah reads the last part of Catherine's last words. Finally, it's all over. The war is over, the memories are over, and all the fear and anxiety are gone. But the love stayed. Everything is like clouds and smoke, only love remains forever.

There is a clue-like object in the film, a history book that the male protagonist carries with him. There is proof that he and Catherine are in love, his passionate feelings, and the sadness and despair of broken love. Memories are also pushed away layer by layer while reading this book. There is also a subtle relationship between Hannah and Amosi, which is not family affection, not love, nor entirely friendship. It's about two people with pain in their hearts healing each other and supporting each other. Finally Hannah left with the book. The old friend is not without traces. Maybe she will start her life again with his story and his love. The background of the war gives the film a cruel tone, and the recurring desert scenes are a constant reminder of the sad undertone. The soundtrack of the film makes the continuous switching between memories and reality smooth and natural. The scene of the male protagonist flying in the desert with the female protagonist's body is too sad. Perhaps at that moment, their love can completely put aside the secular world and war, put aside life and death, and gain eternity. Death makes the moment last forever, and everything passes away.

The British patient of unknown origin left with his memories.