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* PredatoryBigPharma:
** Late in the film, Justin arrives in the Sudan via a plane dropping off vital medical supplies to remote villages. The FrontierDoctor he meets soon reveals that the supplies were donated by pharmaceutical companies [[EngineeredHeroics for the sake of getting a tax break]], and as such, most of the drugs are all ''long'' past their safe use-by-date, meaning that the entire airdrop has been completely pointless.
--->'''Dr Lorbeer:''' Big pharmaceuticals are right up there with the arms dealers.
** The main villains of the film are Three Bees, a British pharma company testing the anti-tuberculosis drug Dypraxa on poor Kenyan villagers. However, the faulty drug ends up killing several test subjects, so [[CuttingCorners to complete the trials on time]], Three Bees opts to just bury the bodies in quicklime and stay schtum about the whole thing, intending to justify any deaths among their eventual customers by claiming PlausibleDeniability. For good measure, they and [[GovernmentConspiracy their allies in the British Foreign Office]] are willing to assassinate anyone who knows about the deaths.
** KDH Pharmaceutical, the GreaterScopeVillain of the film, has predicted a major TB epidemic and created Dypraxa in a shameless attempt to exploit the imminent crisis. Earning the support of the British government by building a major factory in Wales, they're using Three Bees to carry out the trials as a buffer, and most of the assassinations are secretly overseen by KDH security boss Crick. On top of being corrupt as hell, they're also extremely fair-weather: [[spoiler: when Three Bees becomes too unprofitable, KDH abandons their partnership and finds a new company to perform the trials - ironically turning Three Bees CEO Kenny Curtiss into an unexpected ally of Justin.]]
** Late in the film, Justin arrives in the Sudan via a plane dropping off vital medical supplies to remote villages. The FrontierDoctor he meets soon reveals that the supplies were donated by pharmaceutical companies [[EngineeredHeroics for the sake of getting a tax break]], and as such, most of the drugs are all ''long'' past their safe use-by-date, meaning that the entire airdrop has been completely pointless.
--->'''Dr Lorbeer:''' Big pharmaceuticals are right up there with the arms dealers.
** The main villains of the film are Three Bees, a British pharma company testing the anti-tuberculosis drug Dypraxa on poor Kenyan villagers. However, the faulty drug ends up killing several test subjects, so [[CuttingCorners to complete the trials on time]], Three Bees opts to just bury the bodies in quicklime and stay schtum about the whole thing, intending to justify any deaths among their eventual customers by claiming PlausibleDeniability. For good measure, they and [[GovernmentConspiracy their allies in the British Foreign Office]] are willing to assassinate anyone who knows about the deaths.
** KDH Pharmaceutical, the GreaterScopeVillain of the film, has predicted a major TB epidemic and created Dypraxa in a shameless attempt to exploit the imminent crisis. Earning the support of the British government by building a major factory in Wales, they're using Three Bees to carry out the trials as a buffer, and most of the assassinations are secretly overseen by KDH security boss Crick. On top of being corrupt as hell, they're also extremely fair-weather: [[spoiler: when Three Bees becomes too unprofitable, KDH abandons their partnership and finds a new company to perform the trials - ironically turning Three Bees CEO Kenny Curtiss into an unexpected ally of Justin.]]
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* PosthumousCharacter: Tessa is killed near the beginning of the film. Her character is developped via [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]]. Arnold Bluhm's character is also developped via flashbacks, but the fact that he is dead is only confirmed near the end of the film.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Tessa is killed near the beginning of the film. Her character is developped via [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]]. Arnold Bluhm's character is also developped developed via flashbacks, but the fact that he is dead is only confirmed near the end of the film.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Tim points out that both he and Justin will both be dead by Christmas-Justin due to the hit put out on him, Tim due to cancer. Given that Justin's assassinated some time later and Tim's never seen again after this meeting, [[TearJerker it seems he was right.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Tim points out that both he and Justin will both be dead by Christmas-Justin Christmas: Justin due to the hit put out on him, Tim due to from cancer. Given that Justin's assassinated some time later and Tim's never seen again after this meeting, [[TearJerker it seems he was right.]]
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His efforts to retrace his wife's steps and unravel a conspiracy that involves multinational corporations, corrupt local officials, and possibly some of his own superiors takes him around and between Africa and Europe. In the process, he tries to finally understand his wife's life, come to terms with their personal history, and honor her memory. Will the crimes of the powerful be exposed, will he be able to finally connect with Tessa after her death...and will he survive the journey?
The film is beautifully and artfully filmed, and plenty of the CameraTricks are put in play at some point. But between the {{Flash Back}}s and Justin's {{Dream Sequence}}s/ hallucinations, it takes some thought to keep up with the narrative.
Rachel Weisz won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance.
The film is beautifully and artfully filmed, and plenty of the CameraTricks are put in play at some point. But between the {{Flash Back}}s and Justin's {{Dream Sequence}}s/ hallucinations, it takes some thought to keep up with the narrative.
Rachel Weisz won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance.
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His efforts to retrace his wife's steps and unravel a conspiracy that involves multinational corporations, corrupt local officials, and possibly some of his own superiors takes him around and between Africa and Europe. In the process, he tries to finally understand his wife's life, come to terms with their personal history, and honor her memory. Will the crimes of the powerful be exposed, will he be able to finally connect with Tessa after her death... and will he survive the journey?
The film is beautifully and artfully filmed, and plenty of the CameraTricks are put in play at some point. But between the {{Flash Back}}s and Justin's {{Dream Sequence}}s/ hallucinations, it takes some thought to keep up with the narrative.
Rachel Weisz won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance.
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The film is beautifully and artfully filmed, and plenty of the CameraTricks are put in play at some point. But between the {{Flash Back}}s and Justin's {{Dream Sequence}}s/ hallucinations, it takes some thought to keep up with the narrative.
Rachel Weisz won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance.
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* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: How Justin gets killed in the end.]]
