ralph fiennes list

For me this is A. Minghella's greatest achievement , far superior to the mishmash "Cold mountain",
I always think of "The english patient" as a great and intelligent puzzle , because of how the story is told. I only wish I read the book before, so that I could make a proper comparison.
It is a movie that is extremely meticulous , nothing is random: the script is good, the dialog is engaging, the cinematography is breathtaking, the music is emotional and interesting (I love those songs in hungarian, really beautiful), the acting is great too; Ralph Fiennes as count Almasy is impressive, one of this best parts, I think.
The only problem I might have are some of the choices made by the characters, but I guess in love and war anything goes.

The movie was like a amalgam of ideas and political concepts and the viewer gets bombarded by them, so is never let to think by himself.
The movie is a satire and tries to take a stand against politics, during XX century and the present day, there are references to totalitarianism: communism, fascism, nazism; fundamentalist regimes and, off course, democracy.
The symbol of the elephant puzzled me a bit, so I imagined that is used in the same manner Swift used the symbol of horses.
I remembered that the elephant is a symbol of wisdom and intelligence, so the movie was suggesting that humans lack intelligence, or was the wisdom, or both?!
The first half of the movie is "lighter" in tone, with Tom Hollander as Maximilian II, he's great as the megalomaniac idiot, the ruler of some country .
The second part is pretty much like "1984", but I liked it better then that movie, main reason beeing Ralph Fiennes and his performance.
The movie at times lacked coherence and in parts seemed a tad too ambitious , the scrip wasn't all that great either, without the great cast and the strong acting, the movie could have been a total flop, also the movie doesn't came with anything new or innovative, I already knew that politics is dirty, that totalitarianism means nasty business and that democracy is not all that great either, so I find it a bit patronizing.
that doesn't mean i didn't enjoy the movie, because I did.

Hm, I don't understand why all the fuss.
The movie follows an american bomb squad during a number of missions in Bagdad, Irak.
Reminded me of "Black Hawk Down", without beeing that dynamic, but it's easier to follow the story in this case, even if for much of the duration of the movie the story stagnates and the thrilling and emotional engaging moments are few and far in between.
And why sign actors like Fiennes and Pearce if don't let them do a proper job, were just cameos, they were altogether 15 minutes on the screen, and that was a great shame.
The main character is sympathetic enough, but not all that complex as he wants to be, and yes, J. Renner does a good job.
And I suppose to feel sorry for the americans troops, ah, why?