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Home is the place where you were the happiest There was no Best Film Oscar for The Constant Gardener, no Best Actor Oscar for Ralph Fiennes. The Academy likes a love story, not a political thriller. It is unfortunate, as The Constant Gardener is both in every sense of the word. Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz were superb! However, Fiennes will have to settle for film critic awards. This is little consolation for someone who has distinguished himself in such films as Quiz Show, Schindler's List, and The English Patient, as well as this film. Weisz was a real surprise as she took the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards for her performance. Not a surprise to me, but not the favorite. This film will leave you angry, as it should. Even those who stay on top of what is going on in the world will be touched. Those who live in a perpetual fog will be shocked. The lives of Africans have always been cheap, and their own people have always be ready to sell them out for some temporary pleasure. Jared Diamond showed us how things could be improved in Guns, Germs and Steel, but that would remove them as a testing ground, now, wouldn't it. I believe it was a comment Nigel made to Isabel in Bewitched, if I recall, that home is the place where you were the happiest. Justin found that in The Constant Gardener. He went home to Tessa. That's the love story in the adventure and it was beautiful. A film not to be missed. email this review to a friend
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