A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929, is a classic short story written by Ernest Hemingway about the difficulties and cruelties of love and war. In 1932, director Frank Borzage developed a film adaptation of the novel and despite the unquestionable originality of his photography as well as his excellent directorial ideas; Borzage fails to capture on many levels Hemingway's brilliant description and the significant dialogue between the main character, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, and his fellow Italian officers. The film is dubbed and geared towards Borzage's eyes rather than Hemingway's story and accidents are often evident throughout the film. But to be reasonable, the novel is a tall order, considering that the story is told in the first person. If someone has not read Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the film will seem like a rather interesting tragic love story, but in some scenes the producers take it for granted and assume that the viewer has already read the book. My argument is that the film lacks many of the important aspects offered by Hemingway's print version. The movie doesn't do the book justice. Director Frank Borzage focuses exclusively on the romantic characteristics of the story, ignoring the brutality of war, skipping many scenes, trying to enhance the melancholic approach to the book. The film's explanations jump too quickly for my taste, from one chapter to the next, and Lieutenant Henry's suffering and understanding are overlooked too abruptly, being advised rather than expressed. The violence within the film is drastically censored, in fact there is no reminder of the violence and brutality of the war and in some scenes Borzage doesn't even try... middle of paper... they are performing them on the spot . In the text, Frederic manages to escape by jumping into a river and swimming to safety, this part of the book is not even mentioned or shown in the film. Overall I have to say that the film is not a realistic representation of Hemingway's novel. Director Frank Borzage establishes only one aspect of Hemingway's novel, namely romance. By changing the plot and ending of the novel, Borzage undermines Hemingway's point of view and ultimately alters the book as a whole. Hemingway's approach in writing A Farewell to Arms was to show readers the powerful descriptions of life during and immediately after World War I, which Borzage clearly ignores. Both the text and the film are opposites from their creators and seeing the clear differences between the text and the film, it is quite evident that Borzage's adaptation is fake..