Kaylee ,'The Message'
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It's Syriana with pills instead of oil.
Very much so. Although The Constant Gardener is conventionally structured, with a single protagonist, and as a result I got to liking him a great deal. And of course, pills, while a big industry, aren't nearly the entrenched capitalist disaster oil is. One got the sense from Gardener that a scandal would erupt, afterward but in Syriana it was sort of like, "Yeah, saw that one coming; what else is new?"
One got the sense from Gardener that a scandal would erupt, afterward but in Syriana it was sort of like, "Yeah, saw that one coming; what else is new?"
Yeah. Me, too.
I loved Ralph in CG--the personal story and the mystery of what happened made it a lot more compelling for me.
I'm trying to remember what I've seen the lawyer-cousin in before.
I liked Constant Gardener a lot, too, but the end seemed arbitrary.
I liked The Constant Gardener, but I was very tired and got lost during the last third or so. I think I fell asleep and missed important things and I didn't understand the ending at all.
I was awake the whole time and didn't understand the necessity or logic behind the end.
Which part of the ending? It was somewhat different from the book, and I'm blurring them both. I read the book just before the movie came out, and kept checking with the casting. As a result, I can't always tell what imagery I created in my head, and what was onscreen.
I couldn't tell exactly what was happening at the very end, ita, but Ralph Fiennes was at some place holding a gun, and he weirdly sounded like he was going to kill himself, and then some natives or evil conspiracy people were coming after him, and fade to credits.
IIRC, and I may not, the movie provided more repercussions for the villains, but still kept a lot of the futility. I was pleasantly surprised (er...) they stayed true to the book in killing him off because I was sure they wouldn't and it was key. I found the book was much bleaker, in any case.
I'm with sarameg--bleak CITY.
Ralph's character knows he's committing suicide by doing what he's doing, whether or not he pulls the trigger himself.
PC, in the book, he's killed by the same force (and maybe even person, I'm fuzzy) who killed his wife. He knows it's coming.