The immortal gardener

Troy 2021-11-18 08:01:29

I paid attention to this film purely because of Ralph Fiennes, just to see his gentlemanly performance, but after watching the film, I have to praise the Brazilian director Fernando Merrills, following the "City of God" After that, he dare to put a sensitive subject on the screen again, admiring the director's courage, and at the same time I was moved by the humanitarian care advocated in the film.

"In "The Immortal Gardener" I described the amazing inside story of the pharmaceutical industry in the third world countries, the problem of drug abuse in clinical medicine." ---------Le Carré, the original author of "The Immortal Gardener"

The original author’s words are the reality that this film wants to reflect. Ralph Fiennes plays a British diplomat in the film. Because he likes to grow flowers and plants in his garden, the title of the film is "The Gardener" "It means him. Rachel Weisz, playing Fiennes’ wife, has a revolutionary sense of justice and dares to expose all unfair facts. It is her honesty and sense of justice that brought her disastrous consequences. In the film’s She was shot and killed at the beginning, and then the director used flashbacks and memories to tell the whole cause of her murder. After confessing these details, it is our hero, Ralph Fiennes, who took over the unfinished work of his wife. The mission began to fight for justice. Although he knew that there would be a death, he still dared to face the difficulties. This kind of courage is not available to anyone. Most of the scenes of the film were shot in Africa, where we saw poverty, and we also saw the ugly faces of businessmen who are disregarding life and death for profit. When I saw the little boy named Kaka walking dozens of miles. When laying flowers for the dead Weisz, when I saw the little girl named Abu running along because she couldn’t get on the rescue plane, I cried, maybe we have to thank life for everything that life has given us again, even though we Not lustful enough, but at least we are not poor, we can enjoy life, and in the faraway African continent, where children have no clothes to wear, sick can only wait for death and strangers’ medication. I curse those in my heart time and time again. Pharmaceutical merchants with no conscience and morality, they can actually use their immature drugs to do experiments without caring about the lives of a woman and a child. The reason is only to gain more benefits. It is shameful that British government officials are depressed. After joining, with such a huge background to support, anyone who wants to expose their essence will only bring death consequences, just like the "gardeners" couple. I wonder how many movies in our country dare to expose the truth like this? How many filmmakers have the humanitarian care of Merrills to make movies? Perhaps many directors after the fifth generation have given me comfort, like Jia Zhangke and Li Yang, but in a country like China that pays more attention to the system, it is too difficult to make such a movie, so there are so-called underground movies and underground movies. The director, and in the United States, such a movie can be shown, can go to the Oscar, who is sad. . .

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  • Raleigh 2021-11-18 08:01:29

    I have always wanted to say: There are too few movies about Africa in China, and we know very little about Africa! Only when I have been to Africa will I find that the civilized world seems to really treat this place as a garbage pool. Suffering thousands of miles away won't hurt you, but suffering is still suffering. The whole of Africa is our sin.

  • Joana 2021-11-18 08:01:29

    Social issues, but there are some routines in the shooting

The Constant Gardener quotes

  • Birgit: [on drug trials] Put $50,000 in the right hands and you can test battery acid as skin lotion.

  • [Aid workers are being airlifted from a village ahead of band of raiders. Justin brings aboard a local village girl]

    Jonah Andika: I'm sorry, I can't take the girl.

    Justin Quayle: I'm not leaving her!

    Jonah Andika: We're only allowed evacuate aid workers.

    Justin Quayle: To HELL with what's allowed! I'll -look, how much you want for her?

    [pulls cash from pocket]

    Justin Quayle: There's 800 dollars.

    Jonah Andika: Don't embarrass me! You can't buy this. The rules are made for good reason. Please.

    Justin Quayle: This is a child's life! There are no rules to cover that!

    Jonah Andika: Look, there are thousands of them out there. I can't make an exception for this one child

    Justin Quayle: Yes, but THIS is one we can help!