Review of The English Patient

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2012)

One of the truly great movies of all time. Though without a doubt an acquired taste. It can be described best as "this is what movies can do!!"
The thing with great movies is that they are appreciated best by people who have have had a personnel encounter with the themes. Those who have not, well it's like talking to English professors about love poems who have never fallen in love themselves. Who understands "requiem for a dream" better than a drug addict, "The Godfather" than a son grappling with his place in the establishments of society, emerging from his family, Schindlers List than the persecuted, "Star Wars epic" than a person grasping the principles of detachment, faith, & the meaning of a omnipotent presence that guides the very patterns that defines the meaning of life.
The movie is brilliant from a technical point of view (acting,editing, cinematography,soundtrack,directing etc) but its real genius and magic lies in its ability to capture IN AN IDEAL WAY the romance of how we humans really are...how we love (not how we imagine we love but how we really love), what ideals we have, how life see's itself...Good or bad.Ultimately how this "love" changes us.
I for one am grateful for this movie and feel selfishly unique as a person who can appreciate it.