Extended Reading
  • Chase 2022-03-22 09:02:59

    Xiao kill

    Director: A director is measured by whether his works are integrated. "Xiao Sha" is a term we often use to describe such classic films. I often wonder how a film can be controlled by a director to the level of "Xiao Sha". It's a black and white picture, an elegant composition, maybe the performance...

  • Zita 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    On the brink of life and death, the hero chooses only his own conscience and morality

    I accidentally saw the DVD of this movie from the disc store in front of my house, and was immediately attracted by its dignified and cold envelope design, the high Berlin Wall and the white metal wire mesh under the searchlight, the Logo of Criterion Collection is a capital letter The letter C is...

  • Laurianne 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    It is said that it is a classic of spy war movies, but unfortunately I don't understand it very well.

  • Brody 2022-03-14 08:01:02

    Originally, it was to frame the hoe enemy, but it became a patch cover in the end. There are so many grievances under the Berlin Wall

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes

  • Alec Leamas: It was a foul, foul operation, but it paid off.

    Nan Perry: Who for?

    Alec Leamas: What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend. London needs him. They need him so that the great, moronic masses you admire so much can sleep soundly in their flea-bitten beds again. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me...

    Nan Perry: You killed Fiedler!

    Alec Leamas: How big does a cause have to be before you kill your friends? What about your Party? There's a few million bodies on that path!

  • Fiedler: Innocent people die every day. They might as well do so for a reason.