► Several men threaten a man trying to convince him to stop looking into a suspicious death. Two men at a funeral begin to shovel cement onto a coffin, a man protests and a woman tells him they do this to prevent grave robbers from getting at the coffins. A man talks about a woman having been raped and murdered. A man tells another man that his wife was found dead (presumably murdered).
We hear that a man was killed by being shot 8 times from 3 different weapons. ► A man tells another man that there is a contract out on his life. A truck is tipped over onto its side on the water's edge on a beach, men in a jeep approach the truck, the men take a large bag out of it and we understand later that there is a body in the bag. A motorcycle nearly hits a woman and her young son while walking across a street. ► A man is followed while driving along a road, he speeds up, he drives off the road and to the end of a road, he stops and a man gets out of the other car to talk to him. ► A man in a car pulls up alongside another man, he tells him to get in the car, and they drive to a mass gravesite and are told that people are buried there - we see a pile of charred and twisted bodies. ► A man enters his hotel room and is beaten badly by two men who punch and kick him repeatedly he coughs up blood and they stuff a handkerchief in his mouth. ► Many men ride on horseback into a village, they kill many women and children and burn their huts, people are running and screaming, and several people are shot (we see their bloody wounds one woman is shot in the neck and we see blood spurt) and some young people are taken away with the men.
THE CONSTANT GARDENER MOVIE YEAR SKIN
► Two men walk through a morgue where many bodies lie on metal tables - some are covered with sheets and some are not, there are pools of blood on the floor, and we see the charred feet and an arm of one person (flaps of reddened skin are visible) a man pulls the sheet away from the body's face, another man identifies the body and another man vomits loudly (we also see the charred and bloody body of a small child on a table nearby). VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - From a distance we see a man hanging by his feet from a tree, and he seems to have a large bloody gash on his side he also appears to be charred and we are told several additional gruesome details of his brutal torture and murder. ► A woman nurses another woman's newborn after miscarrying her own (her breasts are not evident). A woman bribes a man with sexual favors (she says, "You can have me"). In 10YA’s first transcribed conversation re-view, Erik Jaccard and Yasi Naraghi tackle Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener and discuss capitalism, the nature of evil, hegemonic systems, racial equity, the white savior complex, cinematic portrayals of Africa, and if this film is truly dangerous.
We are told that a man is gay and another man is relieved to know that he and his wife are not having an affair.
► A man walks up to another man and a woman who are talking, he misunderstands what she is saying, and begins to suspect that she may be having an affair with another man. A man touches a woman's face tenderly (she's married to somebody else). ► A man and a woman kiss in several scenes. We see several totally nude toddlers, with their penises exposed. ► Women wear low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage in a few scenes. ► A man and a woman kiss, and they undress each other (she's in a bra, and we see their bare backs, bare buttocks, and his bare chest) they caress each other, and we see them later lying in the bed covered by sheets, and the man gets out of the bed and we see his bare back and buttocks briefly. Manyasi, Steenie Njoroge, Stuart Wheeler, Chris Payne, Nyajima Jial, Brigid M.SEX/NUDITY 5 - A woman lies nude in a bath tub, and her bare breasts and pregnant tummy are exposed her husband puts his hand in the water (presumably toward her crotch), and we see her bare buttocks when she steps out of the tub. All actors – Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Daniele Harford, Packson Ngugi, Damaris Itenyo Agweyu, Bernard Otieno Oduor, Bill Nighy, Keith Pearson, John Sibi-Okumu, Donald Sumpter, Archie Panjabi, Nick Reding, Gerard McSorley, Juliet Aubrey, Jacqueline Maribe, Donald Apiyo, Pete Postlethwaite, Samuel Otage, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Mumbi Kaigwa, John Moller, Andre Leenheer, Lydia M.