Films � The Constant Gardener (2005)
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The Constant Gardener (2005) (Fernando Meirelles)
The Constant Gardener is a sophisticated political thriller adapted from John Le Carre's novel of the same name. It's a thought-provoking look into the African situation that we're guilty of trying to keep out of mind and out of sight. This conspiracy-thriller-cum-love-story follows a British diplomat in Kenya, Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) as he challenges all odds to find out why his wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was murdered on a dusty trail in East Africa.
The film starts with the end of Tessa's journey, as her mutilated body is identified at a morgue in Kenya. The shock of his wife's death and alleged infidelity with a black doctor sends Justin spiraling. Faced with a prima facie case of a crime of passion between 2 lovers, investigators back off from digging into Tessa's work with impoverished Kenyans and her concern in a pharmaceutical company�s apparent humanitarian efforts.
Upon discovering illicit letters hidden away by Tessa, Justin is jolted into investigating the last few weeks prior to his wife's death. Like a robot, Justin re-programmes himself from a mild mannered diplomat to a resolute man, driven by anger and his increasing doubts about the circumstances of his wife's murder that are being fed to him by his superiors. He embarks on a quest spanning Europe and back to the ends of the African continent.
Justin is increasingly uncomfortable with Tessa's relationship with her confidant, Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé), the black doctor with whom she shares her idealism and humanitarian efforts. This develops the suspense by showing us sequences that Justin wasn�t privy to. As the film leads Justin down the wrong paths, it also builds immediate empathy for the increasingly well-rounded character.
Justin's odyssey for answers forces him to look through the eyes of Tessa. He continues what she had started with her fervent efforts to aid the indigent natives, to search out clues, overcome dead-ends and weed out the red herrings. It compels his change to a reckless and ingenuous man on the precipice of a breakdown from his increasing paranoia. The discovery phase of conspiracy and the players in the film urge the momentum to gallop through to Fiennes's best performance this year (including his turn as a blind diplomat in The White Countess that is still being shown in cinemas sparingly).
The Constant Gardener is a sophisticated political thriller adapted from John Le Carre's novel of the same name. It's a thought-provoking look into the African situation that we're guilty of trying to keep out of mind and out of sight. This conspiracy-thriller-cum-love-story follows a British diplomat in Kenya, Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) as he challenges all odds to find out why his wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was murdered on a dusty trail in East Africa.
The film starts with the end of Tessa's journey, as her mutilated body is identified at a morgue in Kenya. The shock of his wife's death and alleged infidelity with a black doctor sends Justin spiraling. Faced with a prima facie case of a crime of passion between 2 lovers, investigators back off from digging into Tessa's work with impoverished Kenyans and her concern in a pharmaceutical company�s apparent humanitarian efforts.
Upon discovering illicit letters hidden away by Tessa, Justin is jolted into investigating the last few weeks prior to his wife's death. Like a robot, Justin re-programmes himself from a mild mannered diplomat to a resolute man, driven by anger and his increasing doubts about the circumstances of his wife's murder that are being fed to him by his superiors. He embarks on a quest spanning Europe and back to the ends of the African continent.
Justin is increasingly uncomfortable with Tessa's relationship with her confidant, Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé), the black doctor with whom she shares her idealism and humanitarian efforts. This develops the suspense by showing us sequences that Justin wasn�t privy to. As the film leads Justin down the wrong paths, it also builds immediate empathy for the increasingly well-rounded character.
Justin's odyssey for answers forces him to look through the eyes of Tessa. He continues what she had started with her fervent efforts to aid the indigent natives, to search out clues, overcome dead-ends and weed out the red herrings. It compels his change to a reckless and ingenuous man on the precipice of a breakdown from his increasing paranoia. The discovery phase of conspiracy and the players in the film urge the momentum to gallop through to Fiennes's best performance this year (including his turn as a blind diplomat in The White Countess that is still being shown in cinemas sparingly).
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