Please give a brief introduction to the movie "The English Patient"

Introduction

At the last moment of World War II, in the ruins of Villa San Girolamo in the mountains north of Florence, Italy, lay a burnt man who had been transported from North Africa. The mysterious man known as the "English Patient" was rescued from a burning plane by Bedouin shepherds. No one knows his true identity. Hana is a Canadian female nurse who lost her lover, father and unborn child during the war.

The war was over, and when large numbers of British troops withdrew, the two refused to return to the hospital in Pisa with the others, leaving Hana to stay and care for him. This mysterious wounded person became her spiritual sustenance. Also staying with them was Caravaggio, the Indian Sikh engineer Kip. Under Caravaggio's constant temptation, the "English Patient" gradually revealed his true identity. He was an Austrian named Olmasi.

In the 1930s, we had been studying and exploring the North African desert to find the Zezula Oasis. Once, a young British nobleman named Geoffrey Clifton flew to Cairo with his new wife Catherine to join the ranks of desert exploration. Within a month, Almasy became her lover. In retaliation for Almasy, Catherine's husband planned a suicide flight to kill all three of them.

Catherine's husband dies, Almasi and Catherine survive, and Almasi travels across the desert to find help. At this time, the war broke out and he was arrested by the British army. In order to be able to return to Catherine's hiding place, Almasy became a guide for German spies. Three years later, he returned to Catherine's hiding cave, took Catherine's body, and flew out of the desert in a plane. The plane was in disrepair, exploded in the air, and Almasy fell to the ground as a burning man. The atomic bomb broke their villa life, and eventually they parted ways.

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Creative background

The reason why Ondaatje named the novel "The English Patient" is because the United Kingdom, as the core country of the Commonwealth, she once There is also extraordinary cohesion. Although this cohesion was no longer what it once was when the novel was written, her influence will continue to exist and play an important role in the vast former colonial areas. Due to historical reasons, members of the British Empire after independence such as India and Canada all have the same imprint of British colonial rule in terms of immigrant composition, cultural background, and development paths.

The feelings of people in these countries towards their former suzerains are love-hate and indescribable, just like Caravaggio and Kip in the novel: When his guess was finally confirmed, Caravaggio decided to The mistake was ignored, and Kip pointed his gun at the "British" patient he respected.

"The English Patient" took nearly six years from conception to completion. Its creation coincided with the introduction of Canada's multicultural policy. In order to ease conflicts among immigrant ethnic groups, support various ethnic groups in developing their own national culture, and protect their equal status in cultural customs and social life, the Canadian government actively promotes "multicultural" policies.