heard awful lot the english patient finally decided get cd find ballyhoo about found cinematic delight should repeat should always watched open mind religious moral zealot afraid film fail see beauty cinematic masterpiece keep harping moral dilemmas film creates remember correctly watched film read review site thoroughly disgusted views person quote said that protagonists thoroughly deserved got comes morality agree way comment film magnificence br br i must admit rarely seen wonderfully crafted film keep hearing background soundtrack subconscious first foremost love story yes extramarital affair moralists beware lets keep focusing that instead lets focus story told admixture flashbacks present set world war ii tells us story survivor plane crash count almazhy played wonderfully ralph fiennes looked army nurse juliet binoche war torn italy beginning end defeat axis powers burn scarred patient much pain kept remembering torrid affair english woman katherine kristin scott thomas shown flashbacks set prewar africa past present interwoven adroitly story sort transported story get feel first hand viewer locales desert italy beautiful characters romantic ashamed say tears ended watch someone truly love movie starts ends shot desert sand dunes twist curves like womans body breathtaking sense loss grief conveyed overwhelmingly actors makes wonder god wars destroys beauty unforgivable all destruction innocence br br anyway deservedly bunch oscars go hunting works director anthony minghellait kind brings back romanticism david lean genre filmsit almost reminds lawrence arabia also based deserthappy viewing folks