Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request of the British government. In following with the native tradition, he is given the services of a servant, Selima (Jessica Alba). A position that British officers refer to as a 'sleeping dictionary,' she is a concubine to share his bed and teach him the local language.

The tradition forbids romantic entanglements, so the relationship is watched over by superior officer Henry Bullard (Bob Hoskins) and his wife, Aggie (Brenda Blethyn). When Selima and John fall madly in love, they enrage both the colonizers and the colonized. Also starring Emily Mortimer and Noah Taylor. I ran across this on FLIX last night. I, uh, I'm sorry to say that I really, ah, have nothing to offer, critically speaking, about this movie.

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I was, ah, concentrating too hard on, um, something while, uh,.... Okay, I was too busy watching Jessica Alba to think about anything else. I admit it, okay? My apologies. Oh, I just thought of something: poison darts. Yes, and killing evil white men who try to poison the indigenous inhabitants in order to appropriate their silver mines in secret.

Oh, and prototypical colonialist behavior on the part of the British, befitting that age-old urge to empire build. Vero Visi Crackle. And, oh yeah, there's a white man enamored of a native woman. Alea Jacta Est Skidrow Serial Port. I don't think I've ever seen that before on film. And the white folk hate the idea, and so do the natives. It's Jessica Alba!

Cut me some slack.