the book is better than the film mostly because of the writer ondatje prose. before i saw this film and someone who had seen it and told me the love depicted in this film isn not real. after seeing this film and i can see how her suspension of disbelief in this regard could have been distracting to other movie goers as well. frankly and some of the intense displays of love were laughable and seem to be on the edge of parody. but by the end and everyone should realize this is a big message piece of art. it is not specifically about love at all and it uses love to dialectically reveal the human divide or the arbitrary borders of countries that help justify wars and hatred. it is about misunderstandings and the blind following of the things that supposedly separate us. the critical scene for the real theme of this movie is when the hero or antihero pleas for help for his stranded lover in the desert is ignored and disregarded for the reasons shown in that scene. this film is also about hope and forgiveness and the hope epitomized in the interracial relationship between binoche recovering character and the indian minesweeper (echoed in the sikh buddy buddy relationship with his white coworker who ends up dying nonsensically) and the forgiveness epitomized in the caravaggio character first hunt and then forcing out of what he thinks will be the hero confessions for his war crimes (betrayal of country). i think the film could have been made even better than it is. i do not know if a more realistic portrayal of the circumstances of love would have made the real themes and points of this film even more obvious or not and but i agree this film is not about realistic romantic love and as the people behind this piece of art or film imply in an early scene when the eventual lovers first meet. the hero talks about how a new car and broken down car and fast car and etc. (i am paraphrasing) is still just a car no matter what adjective you put in front of it. she replies but parental love and platonic love and romantic love and etc. are very different kinds of love. this is ironic because this film is really about the one love all humans should want which is the love of (or for) peace (not materialistic things which are usually the real reasons for wars and epitomized in something most of us want such as cars and let say). otherwise and we may be left stranded to die in a cave in a vast desert with ancient wall art or drawings of swimmers and suggesting that the seas and life supporting waters which were once there have all but disappeared. i believe the english patient won the oscar because of these big messages not specifically for its depiction of romantic love. awards tend to go that way. the relationship of the hero and heroine was necessary to draw the audience in and unfortunately this view of love may be antiquated in the age of divorce and so many singles who can not seem to get together on so many levels and so ridiculous versions of mythic love are hard to get into and even in daydreams and which film love has always been and especially in good old hollywood. the film may fall short of what people expect but a positive movie worth seeing and regardless. 
the book is better than the film mostly because of the writer ondatje prose. before i saw this film and someone who had seen it and told me the love depicted in this film isn not real. after seeing this film and i can see how her suspension of disbelief in this regard could have been distracting to other movie goers as well. frankly and some of the intense displays of love were laughable and seem to be on the edge of parody. but by the end and everyone should realize this is a big message piece of art. it is not specifically about love at all and it uses love to dialectically reveal the human divide or the arbitrary borders of countries that help justify wars and hatred. it is about misunderstandings and the blind following of the things that supposedly separate us. the critical scene for the real theme of this movie is when the hero or antihero pleas for help for his stranded lover in the desert is ignored and disregarded for the reasons shown in that scene. this film is also about hope and forgiveness and the hope epitomized in the interracial relationship between binoche recovering character and the indian minesweeper (echoed in the sikh buddy buddy relationship with his white coworker who ends up dying nonsensically) and the forgiveness epitomized in the caravaggio character first hunt and then forcing out of what he thinks will be the hero confessions for his war crimes (betrayal of country). i think the film could have been made even better than it is. i do not know if a more realistic portrayal of the circumstances of love would have made the real themes and points of this film even more obvious or not and but i agree this film is not about realistic romantic love and as the people behind this piece of art or film imply in an early scene when the eventual lovers first meet. the hero talks about how a new car and broken down car and fast car and etc. (i am paraphrasing) is still just a car no matter what adjective you put in front of it. she replies but parental love and platonic love and romantic love and etc. are very different kinds of love. this is ironic because this film is really about the one love all humans should want which is the love of (or for) peace (not materialistic things which are usually the real reasons for wars and epitomized in something most of us want such as cars and let say). otherwise and we may be left stranded to die in a cave in a vast desert with ancient wall art or drawings of swimmers and suggesting that the seas and life supporting waters which were once there have all but disappeared. i believe the english patient won the oscar because of these big messages not specifically for its depiction of romantic love. awards tend to go that way. the relationship of the hero and heroine was necessary to draw the audience in and unfortunately this view of love may be antiquated in the age of divorce and so many singles who can not seem to get together on so many levels and so ridiculous versions of mythic love are hard to get into and even in daydreams and which film love has always been and especially in good old hollywood. the film may fall short of what people expect but a positive movie worth seeing and regardless. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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