Post by sgev1977 on Nov 15, 2020 4:27:15 GMT
Don't say that! You just have to be patient. I think nowadays most movies, especially Hollywood movies, move too fast and that film was the complete opposite. It was perplexing to some because it's supposedly a thriller but all the info it's there.
IMHO the main theme it's not the investigation itself but the desperate lives those spies lived. The heroics are reduced to office conflicts between bureaucrats! Of course, those fights were literally mortal but the fascinating aspect it's the pathetic element in their work: to be a good spy you had to be the total opposite of James Bond! It was about being grey and renouncing to any passion in your life. Having someone to love or any passion made you automatically vulnerable.
On the same theme, The Spy who came from the Cold is a slightly more straightforward adaptation of another John Le Carre book with some of the same characters and issues. I also love it and the book is probably my favorite Le Carre's novel! His spies are very pathetic people! I actually was disappointed by The Nigh Manager with Tom Hiddleston (I haven't read the book) because I think it was really good and intriguing at the beginning with a phlegmatic Hiddleston accidentally trapped in an international spy conflict because a beautiful woman he barely knew but then suddenly he is vengeful all powerful superhero and just like that it became boring and conventional (at least to me!). Give me unheroic and alcoholic Richard Burton committing the same fatal error that was incomprehensible to him at the beginning of the film: falling in love with a unassuming and naive girl (very far away of a femme fatal or a disposable Bond girl!) and sacrificing himself (and to certain degree his mission) for her!
IMHO the main theme it's not the investigation itself but the desperate lives those spies lived. The heroics are reduced to office conflicts between bureaucrats! Of course, those fights were literally mortal but the fascinating aspect it's the pathetic element in their work: to be a good spy you had to be the total opposite of James Bond! It was about being grey and renouncing to any passion in your life. Having someone to love or any passion made you automatically vulnerable.
On the same theme, The Spy who came from the Cold is a slightly more straightforward adaptation of another John Le Carre book with some of the same characters and issues. I also love it and the book is probably my favorite Le Carre's novel! His spies are very pathetic people! I actually was disappointed by The Nigh Manager with Tom Hiddleston (I haven't read the book) because I think it was really good and intriguing at the beginning with a phlegmatic Hiddleston accidentally trapped in an international spy conflict because a beautiful woman he barely knew but then suddenly he is vengeful all powerful superhero and just like that it became boring and conventional (at least to me!). Give me unheroic and alcoholic Richard Burton committing the same fatal error that was incomprehensible to him at the beginning of the film: falling in love with a unassuming and naive girl (very far away of a femme fatal or a disposable Bond girl!) and sacrificing himself (and to certain degree his mission) for her!
