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A Critical Appreciation - 'The English Patient' Final Sequence  

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A Critical Appreciation - 'The English Patient' Final Sequence The English Patient is a serious emotional drama, which contains many threads to the intricate story. The backdrop of wartime and death add to the dramatic themes and the ending sequence is clearly wrapped in emotion, love and sadness. The stories are told through intermittent flashbacks from the tragic past of the horrifically burnt patient, now being nursed by Hana who has undoubtedly experienced hard times herself. The lighting and colour in the ending sequence have been used effectively to reflect the different moods and feelings at each point in the story. There are three main sections to this extract each with their own style of lighting and colour. The first section set inside the abandoned chateau appears to us as gloomy and dull. Low-key lighting has been used to give this effect and we see the English patient in...

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