Thursday, February 23, 2006

A Not So Mendacious Comment

I wandered over to the Fairhope Lady's blog and read her praise for the movie, "The Constant Gardner." I liked the movie, too, but (as they say) the book was better.

There was, however, in the movie, a brief scene which, so far as I can recall, was not in the book, and the worse for its absence. While his wife and her confederate were mumbling on the porch, Quayle, the constant and expert gardner, was in the yard instructing his "yard boy" on the mixing and use of poisons to control unwanted growths in the garden. The parallel between the drug companies' poisoning of hapless Africans so that the valued races could flourish, was just too neatly arranged for me to accept that the writers did not mean the scene to have exactly that intent.

On the other hand, the film deleted Quayle's adventures in Canada and Elba, no doubt for budgetary reasons. That sacrifice detracted a bit from author Le Carre's grand design, to demonstrate that the pharmaceutical industry's conspiracy is of worldwide proportions, and their eyes and ears everywhere.

Nevertheless, as the lady says, it's a good film, worth the price. Rachael Weisz steals the show and rightfully deserves the Oscar nomination she obtained for her performance.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe there are pharmaceutical companies that have engaged in such
crimes and enlisted the support of corrupt governments. Who can say? But it is not necessary to posit such a gargantuan conspiracy, where
paranoia is the only rational response. The crimes of the pharmaceutical
industry - from the price protection of Aids drugs which have denied
life-saving medicines to millions, to the cover up of lethal side
effects to protect profits - are well documented.

Thu Feb 23, 06:54:00 PM 2006  
Blogger Benedict S. said...

You're right, Red, "well-documented." Le Carre was writing fiction, and now that his regular hunting ground for plots has dried up, we should not blame him for using those "well-documented" sins as grist for his creative machine.

But see today's blog.

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