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The Constant Gardener Film Analysis

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Comparative Film Analysis Essay Task Focus – The Presentation and Treatment of Africa in Hollywood films: Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardener It is difficult to analyse two similar but also very different films and compare them with each other. The things I found most interesting: Tessa Quayle is the main character’s (Justin Quayle) wife in the film The Constant Gardener. She is played by Rachel Weisz. In the movie she comes across as the ‘good white person’ who doesn’t mind living in Africa, in the middle of nowhere. The first scene of her in Africa is her in the middle of a crowd of black people. They seem to completely accept her and a few children even bring her a present for her unborn child, they made out of the few things they could find. Her clothing completely fits in to the surrounding since she likes to be near the local people and identifies herself with them. You can see this in the way she talks to the people while she goes around with Dr. Arnold Bluhm to see his patients. On the other hand she also appears a little assertive when she tells a man to go test for HIV and take medication. She develops to being less direct and not saying what’s on her mind straight in the other …show more content…

He told his wife that there are so many people that need help and one isn’t going to make a difference. In the end of the movie however he has developed a conscience. When he was rescued from the people that came shooting everyone in the village he visited, the pilots wouldn’t take the little black girl that escaped together with him. He begged them and even offered them money but they left the girl behind who even seemed to understand that it wasn’t her place to be rescued together with the white man. Justin was very heartbroken having to leave the girl behind and so you can see that he definitely

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