The English Patient

Amount of water in the glass handed to Count László upon arriving at the army poster after walking out of the desert.

As Hana reads the note Almásy has written on the Christmas cracker paper - "the heart is an organ of fire" - we see that it is dated only "December 22".

However, when we see Almásy originally writing the note in flashback, we see him date it "December 22nd 1938".

At the end of the film after Katherine dies the Count rubs saffron over her face from the thimble around her neck.

When we see her afterwards, her face is clean.

A British sergeant wears a Sunderland Football Club scarf with a logo not designed until the 1970s.

In the Tobruk interrogation center, the German officer wears the shoulder boards of a major and the SS collar insignia of a full colonel.

Major Muller is wearing the rank insignia of SS-Standartenfuehrer, which is equivalent to full colonel.

When an Egyptian worker hits his head on the overhanging wall of the cave, the rock flexes.

The headset Kip wears as he sweeps the road for mines disappears and reappears between shots.

The fuse on the bomb physically changes between shots while Kip works on it.

And, in the extreme close-up of the wires being cut, just one connected wire is seen.

Hana sweeps her wet hair off her forehead as she talks to Caravaggio; in the next shot, the hair is back on her forehead.

Hana lays on a cot, an IV in her arm, donating blood.

But when she rises off the cot just as the shelling begins in the next shot, the IV is gone.

The hair Katharine twirls and pins to her head at the campfire shifts position between shots, as does her shawl.

Hana reads to Almásy the letter a dying Katharine wrote to him, which he keeps in his book.

Yet, when we actually see her reading from it, the letter is not in the book.

When Almásy and Madox are walking through the market discussing the impending war, the camera's shadow can be seen clearly on two extras crossing in the close foreground.

The intervals of lightening seen as Kip, Caravaggio and Hardy carry Almásy around the well are too quick for a thunderstorm.

Kip is buttoning his shirt from the top down as he darts past Hana while leaving the barn.

When he turns to face her a moment later, the buttons he buttoned are unbuttoned and two lower buttons are buttoned.

American flags with 50 stars being waved by those on tanks instead of 48 in 1945.

Just after Katherine pretends to faint at the Christmas party, we see Almásy remove his red paper crown.

In the next shot, as Katherine is leaving the party, Almásy removes his crown again.

The registration plates on the cars in Egypt are of a layout that was not used till the 1980s.

Also in 1930s a Cairo car plate would not carry more than 4 digits, not 6 as seen in the movie.

In the first scene with the plane flying over sand dunesthe shadow of the wing on the plane, the shadow of the plane on the dunes, and the shadows cast by the dunes themselves suggest three different positions for the sun.

The shadows of the dunes also change length and direction when the camera angle changes to behind the plane in the next shot.

Shot of Jeep/truck wheel stuck in the sand shows it has a radial tyre, which were not introduced in Europe until 1948.

The sky shifts between sunlight and overcast in scenes throughout the movie.

After Hana washes her hair she places a lamp on a table behind her, but her shadow is projected onto the wall behind the lamp.

German paratroops did not land via parachute in North Africa until late 1942.

The fall of Tobruk was in summer 1942.

Also, the German paratroopers are shown descending with a kit bag attached by a line to one leg.

This was a British and American technique, not used by the Germans.

Extras in the Cairo market are wearing burnooses (hooded robes) from Tunisia (filming location), not worn in Egypt.

The music that Hanna plays on the bomb-rigged piano does not correspond with the keys that she is actually playing.

The flash and the sound of the explosion that kills Hardy reach the monastery at the same time, despite the distance.

Katherine's husband has taken off to take pictures for the British Army because, "They want maps of all North Africa, That's why he is in Ethiopia.

" Ethiopia is located in Eastern Africa, not in North Africa.

The helmets worn by the American GIs on VE day at the bridge are actually Russian military helmets.

I re-watched The English Patient after a year and no wonder it is one of my favorite films of all time. An epic tale of tragic, doomed love taking place across the gorgeous setting of the Saharan dunes.

Now let me start by balancing my review :P This film isn't perfect, the story is pretty slow in parts, not so much the first time you watch it but after that there's bits that take a long time to add little value to the film. Also let me say I'm not some art student, fan of art-house films or anything other than a normal movie goer so I don't really understand people using big words to review a film.

More than a decade after enduring this atrocity, I am still at a loss to determine what exactly compelled viewers (not to mention the Academy Awards) to lavish this uninspiring vapid mess with such over-the-top praise. There are so many things inherently wrong with the film that it becomes difficult to isolate which one of them is the most responsible for the film's implosion.

This is an incredible film in the vein of the great David Lean epics. The cinematography and music are astounding and the performances deeply moving.

Just my opinion. I know others loved this film, but for me it just never picked up.

The tagline is wrong, there are boundaries that you do not cross in love. The film itself though was very drawn out and didn't bring any drama or tenderness in order to warrant it's nearly three hour runtime.

The English Patient is proof that films should be judged on merit and content alone, rather than on how the public perceives them. I feel very much the same about this film as I do about How Green Was My Valley audiences love to trash that film because it beat out Citizen Kane for Best Picture in 1941.

I am slightly surprised by the overwhelming positive reviews given to this movie. I understand that the cinematography is good, acting is decent and overall the movie is OK, but Oscar for best movie, even before Fargo?

....interesting/engaging were with Willem DaFoe and the British archeologists.