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):
"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.
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.