The story is mainly about a pharmaceutical company secretly using Africans for drug testing, which was discovered by Tessa and killed because of it. As a result, his husband pursued the matter for his wife and discovered the truth, but he was also killed in the end. kill. Following his death, the actions of the drug company were revealed at his funeral.
The story has two lines, one is Tessa and Justin's love affair, and the other is an investigation into a pharmaceutical company. Tessa is a very compassionate and righteous woman who gave her body to get a drug company's incriminating evidence, and was able to feed other African babies with her own milk after her own baby died. Contrasted with her is the crime of the pharmaceutical companies, who think that Africans are "the cheapest lives in the world", take advantage of the opportunity to get HIV tests and also check for TB, and kill tessa and Justin for the company's economic benefit. And Justin's love for Tessa also runs through the whole film. It can be said that without their love, there would be no Justin's inquiries and the final sacrifice for justice.
Although I watched it with English subtitles, the effect and understanding are somewhat affected, but I think this movie is not only a political thriller, but also a poignant love story, which is what impressed me the most. From the love at first sight between the two, to the death of Tessa, to the death of Justin, it can be said that the director used an interlude, and there are flashbacks in the interlude, which makes people feel that although the two are in love, it is very short-lived. It shocked me even more. So it's better to think of this movie as a romance. At the end of the movie, Justin sat alone where Tessa was killed, recalling the past of the two of them. Behind him was the African who wanted to kill him. The last sentence he left to the world was "You want me to come home, but i am home." ,Tess.”
Another thing that impressed me was the life of the poor people in Africa reflected in the film: lack of medical care and medicines, all the medicines they take are expired medicines given by pharmaceutical factories; The plunder of the bandits and the burning of thatched huts are not to mention the danger of life. There is a scene in the movie that reflects the situation of innocent people being plundered. Justin fled with a little African girl to the plane that rescued them. The African captain just wouldn't let the girl on the plane, even if Justin gave him money. At that time, the little African girl consciously ran away from the plane. After the plane took off, she ran after her. I really don't know what her fate will be in the end, whether she is dead or alive. Even if she escaped this time, I don't know. How many more robbery are waiting for her, how many times this kind of thing will happen in Africa every day, it is really embarrassing.
Rachel Weisz doesn't have a lot of roles in this movie, and there is basically no part of her in the second half. Although it is a supporting actress, I think this is too "supporting", and her performance is not as good as How good the others nominated at the time were, I think. Ralph Fiennes, who plays Justin, personally thinks that he is born to be an actor. He is handsome and has good acting skills. He has that taste in everything he does, commercial films and literary films. I don't know when I can get an Oscar.
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