![]() ![]() Employing the same helter-skelter style that brought vibrant immediacy to his international hit “City of God,” on which Meirelles collaborated with Katia Lund, helmer employs in-your-face camerawork to bring the Kenyan locations intensely alive at the same time, the rapid-fire approach is nothing like a visual correlative of the elegant relentlessness of the author’s style. Meirelles, working from a script by Jeffrey Caine, has managed to arrive at basically the same destination as le Carre, but via a very different artistic road. ![]() Le Carre uses the sharpest of scalpels in performing a comprehensive sociopolitical autopsy on the remains of a murdered young woman whose provocative discoveries threatened to explode the hypocrisies, lax ethics, betrayals and assorted other ills of international pharmaceutical giants and government bureaucracies - Western and African - that support the use of Third World populations as guinea pigs. Although untempered anger seethes from all 560 pages of le Carre’s best-selling 2001 novel, it is channeled by the author’s acute ability to release it in precisely modulated quantities through the cracks in his characters’ fastidiously rendered British diplomatese. ![]()
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