I really, really liked it. Evelyn won’t stop talking about it, either.

I thought it looked cool, mainly because it has Rachel Weisz in it. What is it about anyway?

Oh Archer, this is right up your alley. It’s about pharmaceutical companies testing drugs in Africa and damning the human cost. Rachel Weisz is the activist wife of a low-level British diplomat in Kenya. She is killed, and he launches his own investigation into her death.

I have not seen it. Thus, not riled.

Sweet. I heard that Pfizer tested drugs in Africa, but it led to a population explosion….

I think we need to know very early on that she dies. The film would lose something very intrigal to the ominous mood if this weren’t so. Also, does the use of flashbacks at the beginning of the film have to be necessary? It certainly isn’t uneccesary. I’m not sure all of his memories are of the same sort, either, or ought to be.

ok nathanael, now you have my email address :) late on this topic, but i hadn’t seen the movie when you talked about it. i loved it, and i’m a bushie, too ;) i think it’s really necessary to know that she died at the beginning of the film, and also to have the flashbacks…i don’t know what the book was like, but what i got out of the film was less the story about him discovering why his wife was killed, and more his journey into learning about his wife and that she was faithful to him. the flashback memories at the beginning show them in love, then his subsequent memories show how his perspective on different events cast doubt in his mind about whether she really loved him. then the present moment scenes show him learning to look differently at those memories. it seems like the chelsea house memory is one of his last memories, and it’s like his eureka moment when he is certain again that she loved him, and then the story takes place solely in the present. so he doesn’t take the time to find out who his wife really is until it’s too late, and once he does find out he knows how much he has lost and ultimately living without her is too painful. it was a really touching film. but really sad.