I liked it because it covered alienation pretty well, and his whole white savior agenda falls apart hard at the end when he’s widely hated among the Arabic folk for being a bloodthirsty maniac.

edit: and the movie explores how Lawrence didn’t really help the Arabian peoples at all, even if the end kinda depicted the Arabs as unable to make civilization or whatever because of how pointless their attempted parliament was

ye and the guy literally said that indians should gassed to death en masse

I’ve always liked this movie. I do think it actually shows that Lawrence destroyed Arabia by bringing the British (bourgeois) culture he hated to it. Check out this amazing essay by Christopher Caudwell on the subject (written many years before the movie was made):

https://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/1938/studies/ch02.htm

“The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” is also good if you want endless descriptions of the terrain in Arabia as well as each of the characters in the movie divided into like fifty different people.

Feel like that sentence could be used to describe damn near every movie.

I liked that it presented Imperialism as a joint operation between local and foreign oppressors (but i’m not aware of the history at all, let me know if i’m wrong)

I also enjoyed the suppressed homosexuality in the film. I don’t know how intentional it was but the more the filmmakers tried to hide it the more obvious it is. I hope everything was above board for Lawrence IRL.