CONSTANT GARDENER, "The Tireless Gardener", Hong Kong translation, is this, ha, ha, don't wait for me to make one, and try to explain this problem from several angles.
Justin Quayle, Queen’s diplomat, English gentleman, handsome, mature, humorous, patient, courteous, principled, and often apologizes for alleviating the discomfort of others. He loves life, is not very ambitious, and is often troubled by all kinds of weeds and pests in the garden. Gentleman, just a little plain.
Tessa Quayle, a former radical student, likes teacher-student love, has a one-night stand with serious people, is good at creating embarrassment in public; the current wife of diplomat, social activist, humanitarian, is still good at creating embarrassment in public.
Tessa is like hundreds of unemployed foreigners wandering in China, curious and straightforward. Go around with the African fellows to hold relatives to walk the door. People give a needle tip and use it as a mallet, until everything is hung in the room like the World Exposition. Such a person makes it impossible to doubt her innocent dedication. Only such idealists serve the people at all costs like Chegovara. In fact, she is very much like the protagonist in the book "Lost in Translation" that I bought wrong back then. This book is not Bill Murray's Tokyo Travel Notes, but it is about an American archaeologist who investigates the truth about history. The same part is that they really love and desperately want to integrate into a society that is far from them. The difference is that archaeologists are aware of the cunning and cultural chauvinism of the broad masses of Chinese people, while the lovely radical students just want to build a tin shack under the red sun of Africa with their enthusiasm and a just heart. In addition to waiting for relief all day long, the house mingle with the people who have no other means of making a living on relief.
Having never been to Africa, I can’t guess how Africans feel about making friends with the wife of the diplomat of the British Empire, but I don’t believe that all friendships are equal.
Tessa's various behaviors can be said to be anomalous, Justin makes it easier to understand. A gentleman, living a leisurely and comfortable life, does not intend to add weight to himself. Although his wife is reckless, she is completely within the definition of frank and cute. Although she is very stubborn, but if she is not particularly practical and common sense, she will completely agree with her approach. He lives completely in his own small world, where his career, life, and family are in a delicate balance just like gardening. This is probably the standard solution of the so-called gentleman's demeanor. Even occasionally doubting whether his wife is going out of the wall has to be expressed in a tactful manner, or it can be said that he is pedantic to death, or it can be said that his confidence in delicate balance is far greater than catching the wind.
So the story officially begins when the delicate balance is cruelly broken. Like the truth inspired by alcohol, it is dirty, sinful, and chaotic, constantly making the worst guesses about reality and human nature, and the guesses are repeatedly surpassed by more terrifying facts. The story of despair is the most disgusting story. This story spirals down like a stalled airplane, approaching despair.
In addition to telling an angry story from the standpoint of an idle gentleman, the most attractive part of this film is that the director and photography show a living Africa. It doesn’t mean that it’s alive, because I don’t know it, it means it’s alive. Africa is organic and full of vitality. I have seen China squeeze a family of four or five hundreds of senior intellectuals into a 12-square-meter hut. The corridors are filled with various temporary furniture made of packing boxes, and the kerosene stove and the dirty water of vegetable leaves are emitted. All kinds of stench, overcrowded feces and urine in public toilets have often awakened me from my dreams. But I have never seen thousands of intersecting poor huts full of color, restlessness, vitality and smiles. Whether or not they are a true portrayal of local life, these shots make people feel sympathy, admiration, and curiosity for them.
Sister Jiang was brutally killed by the reactionaries. Tessa was also brutally killed by the reactionaries.
Justin is being ruthlessly hunted down by the reactionaries, and his survival is uncertain. On the occasion of life and death, revolutionary romanticism far surpasses humanitarianism, holding the hearts of the audience tightly. Perhaps only in this way can we tell a humanitarian story that is not hypocritical.
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