what kind of conflict is in a farewell to arms

Really, I can't see this film doing a great amount of justice to Hemingway's story, because if nothing else defuses the momentum of this melodrama, it's all of the cheesiness, reflected partly in some lame comic relief, and largely in dialogue that ranges from flat to admittedly unbelievably bad, and whose missteps are recurrent throughout the film, aggravating you and trying your patience, while superficializing the depths of this conceptually heavier subject matter. I was expecting this to be something of a formulaic Hollywood war drama, and sure enough, throughout this sprawling affair, nearly nothing new occurs, leaving predictability to set in, even if you're not already familiar with Ernest Hemingway's classic material. Man, this film is cheesy that it might have added to the rumors regarding Hudson's sexuality, but hey, at least it's entertaining, even though it isn't exactly unique. Man, with 'Giant', and then this film, Hudson was really getting into sprawling romantic epics towards the end of the '50s, probably because he wanted to spend as much time as he could showing himself with a woman. That was probably not great for Selznick's marriage to Jennifer Jones, because she shouldn't be in this film with Clark Gable on the brain, seeing as how even Rock Hudson, alone, is more than a few stones above Selznick. I don't know if epic filmmaking was that big of trait for the producer, but you know that they're trying to get you to think of 'Gone with the Wind' with this film.

Now, with that said, you can leave it to Selznick to take something that was once made into 85-minute-long pseudo-filler, and turn it into a two-and-a-half-hour-long epic. Seriously though, Selznick is back to produce yet another high-scale and romantic war melodrama, although, compared to 'Gone with the Wind', this film is about as long as, well, the adaptation of this Ernest Hemingway classic that they made back in 1932. Selznick was 'Gone with the Wind', and now he's finally getting around to bidding 'A Farewell to Arms'.

What kind of conflict is in a farewell to arms