SPIRITUAL FOCUS ON MOVIES November 7, 2005 Issue

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY

JEFFEREY HILDNER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR

there's a moment in the film The Constant Gardener, set in Nairobi, Kenya, when the camera leads the viewer from a manicured, pristine putting green, where a British intelligence officer and corporate thugs talk business, to the adjacent railroad and into Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa.

Talk about the wrong side of the tracks.
Talk about the have's and have not's.
The constrast is visceral.

How bad is Kibera? Well, suffice it to say that when Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was filming The Constant Gardener, he was stunned. Nairobi's slums, he said, made the slums of Brazil look like Beverly Hills.

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