Posted on 08/25/2005 11:13:07 AM PDT by Cool Chick
If you were thinking of seeing "The Constant Gardener," when it arrives in theaters, next week, save your money.
That is, unless you are into movies where the murderous, evil White man and the big bad pharmaceutical companies they run are the reason for all poverty, illness, despair, and death in Africa. That's the Cliff's Notes version of this celluloid piece of crap: Western White Man, Evil; Innocent African Black Man, Angelic. The stupid, liberal, noblesse oblige crowd who attended the screening just loved it. I guess they enjoy being spanked.
No coincidence that far-left, biased organizations like OxFam and Amnesty International get much positive play in the propaganda "thriller." And one of the heroes of the movie is, surprise, a gay African doctor. Strangely, the marauders who burned, killed, and raped Blacks in Sudan were not identified as the Arab Muslims that they are in real-life Sudan.
No coincidence, either, that this movie stars Ralph Fiennes, the star of the equally boring and predictable, "The English Patient." As "Seinfeld" character Elaine Bennis said about that film, "Just die already." I second that emotion, here.
"The Constant Gardener" is based on a thriller by leftist, anti-Israel novelist John LeCarre. If this boring, obvious propaganda is a "thriller," it's hard to see that anyone has ever been thrilled by this best-selling writer. I struggled to stay awake during this boredom-fest, wasting two hours of my life I can never get back.
LeCarre likes attacking western institutions and allies and propping up unworthy third-world parties. His "The Little Drummer Girl" makes the Israel the villain, a la the White man and drug companies in this film, and Palestinians the victims, like the Africans in "Gardener."
If you buy tickets to "The Constant Gardener," you are giving tacit approval to his work--and making him even more wealthy and free to spread more such BS.
It's John LeCarre. What was she expecting?
One more movie I won't see.
You know, lots of people in everyday life deal with real life situations and real life tragedy in their work, in their lives.
I don't need Hollywood or any movie studio anywhere to dish guilt.
Several reviewers said LeCarre has gone anti-American in the book so I never bothered to read it. Prior to this I was a big LeCarre fan.
Why the crap would she comply? What's the publicist doing trying to censor negative reviews?
Linda Vester's show had a Rolling Stone dupe on who was saying the Dixie Chix were "unaffected" by their past controversy.
The Rolling Stone (or should that be Stoned) Reporter said a performers politics do not affect ticket sales.
That is why we get these PC barf-O-ramas. The left thinks that if they keep pushing this crap on the public they will change opinion.
Thank you for posting this.
I find it very useful, especially when comercials (for some reason) go out of their way to conceal the homosexual theme and the PC nature of the "film".
If she saw it at a press screening I believe she has to withold publication of reviews till the movie is released. If she doesn't she would not be allowed at critics preview screenings.
I like George Smiley, but Le Carré always seems to depress me. "The spy who came in from the cold" was as cynical a novel as I've ever read in my life. I enjoyed the "little drummer girl", I'm not sure how--maybe I managed to project the anti-Israeli aspects onto the idiot "heroine", and so discount them. But it's been a while--maybe I liked it less than I think.
She says on her site that she was asked to remove it until it opens on August 31.
They say "The spy who came in from the cold" gave spy fiction a moral ambiguity it hadn't had before. Previously it was white hats vs black hats. In any case he made it a literary genre.
Meanwhile, I watched Tears of the Sun last night which was widely criticized as being racist for stereotyping black on black genocide in Nigeria. Cant have white people saving the blacks from evil murdering blacks you know.
ah hell, and here I thought someone in Hollywierd finally had the balls to call Africa like it is: a sinkhole of festering corruption and tyranny. Too much to ask for I guess.
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