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, a film adaptation of the novel was developed by director Frank Borzage and nevertheless the undeniable originality of its photography as well as its excellent ideas for direction; Borzage lacks on several levels of Hemingway's brilliant depiction and meaningful dialogue between the main character, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, and his fellow Italian officers. The film is dubbed and positioned towards Borzage's eyes rather than Hemingway's story and incidents are frequently noticeable throughout the film. But to be reasonable, the novel is a difficult task, given that the story is told in the first person. If someone has not read Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the film will please as a rather interesting tragic romance, but in some scenes, however, the producers take this for granted and assume that the viewer has already read the book. My argument is that the film misses many important aspects that the printed version of Hemingway offers. The movie doesn't do the book justice. Director Frank Borzage focuses only on the romantic features of the story, ignoring the brutalities of war, skipping many scenes, trying to enhance the book's melancholy approach. The film's explanations jump too quickly for my taste, from one chapter to the next and Lieutenant Henry's sufferings and understandings are glossed over too abruptly, being advised rather than expressed. The violence in the film is drastically censored, in fact there is no remembrance of the violence and brutality of the war and in some scenes Borzage doesn't even attempt... middle of paper ..... .them runs the place. In the text, Frédéric 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 true depiction of Hemingway's novel. Director Frank Borzage establishes only one aspect of Hemingway's novel, namely romance. After changing the storyline and ending of the novel, Borzage undermines Hemingway's point of view and ultimately changes 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. The text and the film are polar opposites of their creators and, given the obvious differences between the text and the film, it is obvious that Borzage's adaptation is false..