ok and what be this story about again . i be afraid that i never read the book and frankly and this be one of the most confusing movie that i have ever try to watch in a long time . i get a bit confuse on the number of flashback between the nurse and the patient and the man with no thumb . the film do not even really explain what they be look for in the desert until they find it while or even how in the world they all know each other to come together . after recently see the pride and prejudice movie with colin firth and i have be try to do a study on his film career by watch other movie of his and and bluntly and other than what a girl want i be not find much where he play in that be any good . i be definitely not say that he wasn not good . he be really one of the best actor i have see in the modern day film and but the content and quality of the film he play in have a lot to be desire . the english patient be another perfect example of where the director and writer and and crew be just too close to their subject matter to see that the viewer be not get the picture literally . the entire movie seem to be to showcase ralph fiennes a a dramatic actor with long period of emote that be a bore . nothing be really explain and every one of the subject from the beginning seem to need a psychoanalyst evaluation . kristin scott thomas character seem to enjoy describe erotic story stand in front of a totally male audience and titillate other men other than her husband while colin firth and who play her husband and do not necessarily have all his marble in place and be suppose to be a secret agent i guess while and ralph fiennes walk around like a roman mr. darcy ( sorry and colin . ) who think he know it all . the rest of the cast be cast ( pun intend ) to the four wind a the plot wanders on . the subplot of the mental stability of the nurse ( juliette binoche ) and her motif and involvement with naveen andrew be another confuse element that leave the viewer with an unsavory taste . but of course and the viewer be still reel how in the world the first two character ( thomas and fiennes ) end up have sex the first time anyway . what be the attraction . there be no chemistry and no build up . just a slap and bam and thank you . and isn not it romantic that fiennes end up a traitor help the german by give them map to the desert . ( sarcasm ) to describe this movie and i would have to simply say and how to impress your gynecologist with your mammogram and cheat on your sweet and adorable husband who love you . the final unbelievable section of this plot be to fathom how anyone would choose ralph fiennes over colin firth . firth have very little opportunity to demonstrate any of his act talent in fact and when watch the movie and i think it must have be one of his first . the scene where he have be wait for his wife all night be perhaps the only two second clip that be worth see in the movie . at that and i have no interest in watch it again . the best scene i like be the plane crash where firth be try to take them all out . too bad he miss . it would have save an extra twenty minute of even more fruitless film . aerial desert scene be pretty neat and though .