Follow That Camel!!!

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2001)

With it's lavish golden landscapes and oozing charismal separations from the character leads, Lawrence of Arabia proves itself as one of the most egotistical, shallow, drawn out endurance tests of modern time. Even a fine ensemble cast featuring the cloaked Peter O' Toole as the Arabian Lawrence, Alec Guinness as the General Eiftgh and the white haired black tashed Sharrif flexing out David Lean's celluloid arms with wanken old English charisma that couldn't sweet talk a lemming into an incredible sinking sand dune. But on average it's not awful, it's just rubbish. Lean assumes we can handle the natural beauty of the desert in place of a good story with well plotted twists that could at the same time keep us mesmerised and not hypnotised by sweet bangla music and what not. But there is always a fine array of camels on show, that prove to us that life is not simply about understanding colour and shape, it is also about nurturing the stupid and the ugly. Rent Rocky instead.