Revisiting The Immortal Gardener.
The first time I saw it was in my early twenties. I chose it because it was a suspense film starring Ralph Fiennes. After watching it, I was very moved and felt that it was a film with humanistic care. "One Nation's Business Diplomacy should not be determined by narrow commercial interests."
Looking at it again today, I feel that I have touched a little "immortality".
Director Fernando Merrills said frankly that he directed the film for three reasons: first, it was related to the pharmaceutical industry; second, it was filmed in Kenya; third, in the final analysis, the film was telling a beautiful love story.
Tessa, a rose with thorns, sharply offered her insights into the politics of a powerful country at Justin's diplomatic briefing, giving both sides their first understanding. Soon after, Tessa proposed to accompany Justin to Africa as a lover, girlfriend or wife. The surprise, surprise, confusion and joy in Justin's eyes all turned into tenderness. It was love at first sight that I hadn't read before.
"I see you buying fish and chips for the mob and waiting for order to be restored. I love you like this." This sentence interprets a lifelong commitment to public welfare, and insists on using his weak body to expose the British pharmaceutical companies and even the It is the woman who is the conspiracy brewed by the government on the African continent.
Tessa's baby was gone, and she told Sandy with tears in her eyes, "It's a boy, he was born healthy, right Justin." At this point, she was holding a black baby girl in her arms and breastfeeding her own. She, because the baby girl's mother, a 15-year-old Kenyan girl, is dying. And Justin gave Tessa silent company and thick shoulders.
Tessa died, murdered, and got the dirty hat of having an affair. From the identification of the corpse in the corpse to the funeral on the African continent, Justin showed calmness, like a sinking ice at the bottom of a lake. But when everyone, especially his colleagues, the makers of the murder, thought he would silently accept what seemed The body, in the same way as Tessa was alive, continued Tessa's unfinished business.
It was not until Justin returned to Tessa's house, remembered the first meeting between the two, and saw the desolate plants in the garden, that he finally shed tears of sadness and cried out in pain. Because he has no "home" anymore.
"Where I have her is my home."
You want me to come home, but I am now.
Only love is immortal, Justin's love for Tessa, and Tessa's love for life.
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