"The sick arrived one after another, marching before astonished doctors who had never seen anything like that. They looked like puppets without strings, they were about life. Forty cases in a single night, Oct. 19 at the Hospital of San Nicolas de Saint-Marc. Vomiting, diarrhea and absolute weakness. They were still spending hours and the flood was overwhelming: 400 contagious first day, 1,000 the second "...
These lines have been culled from recent information an online journal. They refer to the tragedy Haiti suffers unleashed after in their territory last fierce epidemic cholera .
few years ago, I wrote a similar work on another epidemic, which struck the city of Ourense during 1854. The dire health conditions in my hometown in the mid-nineteenth century became the breeding ground for the spread of the disease. These circumstances have unfortunately result consistent with those experienced in contemporary Haiti, and also gave those inside China in the first decades of the twentieth century, a scenario in which the action takes place "The Painted Veil ( John Curran, 2006).
We are facing a remake of that "The Painted Veil ( Richard Boleslawski , 1934) starring by the bright Greta Garbo in the role Katrin Koerber Fane .
tape in question, the screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the novel by the famous and controversial William Somerset Maugham, charged of marked autobiographical elements, as this British writer (bisexual) had a turbulent relationship with Siry Wellcome, wife of U.S. tycoon pharmaceutical industry Henry Wellcome. Fruit of that adultery would be born a daughter. The scandal ended in divorce, marriage and new marriage between William and Syrie, which also eventually end up separating ... In his adventurous existence, Somerset Maugham traveled extensively in China, and is therefore very knowledgeable about their culture and society.
The novel dates from 1925, which also starts the movie.
The novel dates from 1925, which also starts the movie.
William Somerset Maugham
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The immature and capricious Kitty (Naomi Watts ) live idle in a family fallen on hard times in London society. To escape the parental unit without thinking accepts the proposal of marriage which makes the taciturn Dr. Walter Fane ( Edward Norton), a doctor engaged in research bacteriologist. The young newlyweds soon be leaving for Shanghai where Walter manages a public health laboratory under the British colonial government.
Naomi Watts (Kitty) and Edward Norton (Walter) are Fane
The daily monotony and boredom leads to apathy growing in Kitty, while her husband remains increasingly absorbed in his work. Perhaps because of this, she throws herself into the arms of attractive vice consul Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber ), a seducer with a reputation for womanizing and his own wife Dorothy (Juliet Howland ) agrees to all his infidelities.
Charlie Townsend Liev Schreiber is
DISEASE ...
Walter will soon discover adultery. Undaunted, his wife gives two options to avoid the decree nisi : or Charlie divorces his wife to marry Kitty or she must go with him into the country, accompanying him to a remote city devastated by a cholera epidemic.
DISEASE ...
Cholera is an infectious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae , a bacillus (comma-shaped) Gram negative discovered in 1854 by Italian Filippo Pacini studying the gut contents of those affected. occurred 30 years before the brilliant discoveries of Robert Koch in the field of bacteriology.
Apparently Koch himself traveled to India and Egypt to study the pandemic between 1881 and 1896, identifying a bacterium called kommabazillen as a cause of disease.
We are in 1925. The treaties of the History of Medicine report that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and more specifically between the years 1899 and 1923, there was a cholera pandemic. The action of the film would be developed as in the last throes of this pest.
As in many other occasions, as happened in India the Ganges and in Haiti in the Artibonite , infected waters are the means of transmission of the disease ...
Today it is a classic epidemiological study John Snow was on the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854, discovered through a map cases that contaminated water pump in Broad Street ... The film in question, Dr. Fane also ordered the closure of a contaminated supply well in the middle of town.
Today it is a classic epidemiological study John Snow was on the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854, discovered through a map cases that contaminated water pump in Broad Street ... The film in question, Dr. Fane also ordered the closure of a contaminated supply well in the middle of town.
order to prevent the disease Dr. Fane will face ascentrales customs of China's population, where the bodies were obscured several days before being buried, precisely in a cemetery surrounded by the waters of a tributary of the mighty Yangtze Kiang , where children play and swim, and the population is supplied with water for drinking and cooking.
To these difficulties must be added the hatred of the foreigner in China nationalist effervescence after World War II, and the scourge of feudalism still prevails in many rural areas, where people were forced to survive in the deepest misery and discontent which later lead the communist revolution of Mao Tse-tung (1949).
A Despite all the advances, the treatment of cholera remains simple. The World Health Organization ( WHO) recommends the early use of oral rehydration liquid and minerals intended to replace the patient's body fluids lost through diarrhea and vomiting abrupt. In particularly serious cases, we need an infusion of intravenous fluid, as we see in the film.
also observed in the film as an improvised hospital in the grounds of a convent of French nuns. The beds of patients account for only a few battered tables provided with a hole in the middle laying evacuate the bowel movements. The constant stench, nauseating, heat, morbid.
Just working on these units and the orphanage next door, the once indolent and fickle Kitty Fane get relieve their pains. But redemption comes later, once forgotten memories of her lover and finds true love by her husband succumbs to the disease he was fighting.
there a reference to vaccination against cholera, poorly developed at that time.
The pace of the film takes on some occasions, perhaps to emphasize the arduous nature of the circumstances in which they must live and work Fane marriage. Some critics have labeled this film as cold and academic, but we would emphasize the beauty of the images that highlight certain landscapes that seem culled from traditional Chinese prints.
The film in general, by theme and atmosphere by the antagonism between the medical care and research, including clinical practice and public health scientist for the fight against ignorance and superstition, has reminded us several times that other films reviewed in this blog, "Road to the jungle" ( Robert Mulligan, 1962)
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- Edward Norton himself convinced that Naomi Watts will play Kitty, the paper that was initially thought Nicole Kidman . Norton and Watts were also producers of this film.
- The soundtrack can be heard delicatessen et up: the melancholy Gnossienne No. 1 Erik Satie of .
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