The film is good but very unfair. T.E. Lawrence was never as flamboyant, egotistic and self-aggrandising as the script claims. Nobody knows what his true sexuality was. It is very much open to doubt that he could have stopped the massacre of Ottomans at Tafas, and he certainly did not enjoy it as the film depicts. You say it shows him as a saviour of foreign people, and that is true, but it was largely journalists who concocted that image. It certainly does not emerge from his memoirs. After the Balfour agreement he retreated entirely from public life.
You can accuse Lawrence of being a naive arabist, one who implicitly accepted at least some aspects of imperialism. But even if he had never been sent to that campaign, even if Faisal never fought against the Ottomans, the outcome would have been the same.
The film is good but very unfair. T.E. Lawrence was never as flamboyant, egotistic and self-aggrandising as the script claims. Nobody knows what his true sexuality was. It is very much open to doubt that he could have stopped the massacre of Ottomans at Tafas, and he certainly did not enjoy it as the film depicts. You say it shows him as a saviour of foreign people, and that is true, but it was largely journalists who concocted that image. It certainly does not emerge from his memoirs. After the Balfour agreement he retreated entirely from public life.
You can accuse Lawrence of being a naive arabist, one who implicitly accepted at least some aspects of imperialism. But even if he had never been sent to that campaign, even if Faisal never fought against the Ottomans, the outcome would have been the same.