Not an accurate portrait of Lawrence the Man

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2002)

Don't get me wrong, this is a great movie the way Citizen Kane is a great movie, all the elements add up. BUT please read Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence's fabulous book. Could you have guessed from the movie that Lawrence was a great prose stylist? In reality he was short, not conventionally handsome, but funny and shy; it's very hard to believe that he was a homocidal maniac. This movie was made at a time when homosexuality was shocking (remember Advise and Consent?) and writers were compelled to see it as a character fault that led to other faults. Please don't believe everything you see in movies, even good ones.