Watching Notes - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

Alysha 2022-03-18 09:01:03

1. The most distinctive feature of this film is not to use flashbacks to reveal clues and weave the plot, but to express the details. A lot of key details are embedded in the flow of the image, represented in just one shot, not even a close-up, like the death of Control, like Peter hearing Soldier singing and realizing he was being monitored; Mind-wandering has become a huge disaster to fully understand the plot, and it also makes the rewatch full of surprises. Moreover, this technique, together with the slow rhythm of the film, creates a calm and objective effect. The film only tells, does not emphasize or evaluates, and is as calm and professional as spy work, somber and melancholy. 2. The Sound Bridge is a powerful tool for connecting the present and the past and introducing flashbacks. 3. The tone gets darker and darker, until the moment Peter enters the room with a few lamps on and the truth is revealed. The orgasm was just such a dark glimpse.

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Extended Reading
  • Lessie 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    The starring of two old actors, Colin Firth and Gray Oldman, is doomed to the tone of this film. not bad.

  • Reba 2021-11-12 08:01:17

    Brother did not shoot a spy war, but loneliness!

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy quotes

  • Oliver Lacon: The treasurer can't understand why can't the intelligence service simply put in a request for a general increase in funding and then you'll account for the spend on your special operation?

    Percy Alleline: Operation 'Witchcraft' needs to remain a secret; it's a fiefdom of its own.

    Oliver Lacon: Yes, that's what's winding us; whole thing's very unaccountable isn't it? This London house that no one knows the address of, is that really necessary?

    Percy Alleline: Now more than ever, we need to protect our Soviet source.

    Roy Bland: [lights a cigarette] So where do you propose we meet, in a café?

    Oliver Lacon: The rent and rates on this house have... doubled.

    Roy Bland: We spent millions on nuclear warheads, we're asking for a few thousand for a house. I wonder if Karla has the same problem with the treasury at the Kremlin.

    Oliver Lacon: Look, nobody underestimates the importance of the jobs you chaps are doing.What happened in Budapest last year... That was a disaster.

    Roy Bland: With respect, sir, that wasn't one of your civil servants that got killed, was it? Now this isn't about soldiers in trenches anymore. We're the front line now...

    Oliver Lacon: Roy...

    Roy Bland: For 25 years we've been the only ones standing between them and Karla and Moscow and the Third bloody World War!

    Oliver Lacon: Look, the minister is very pleased with your progress so far. He's less pleased though, with our progress with our American cousins. You see, in their eyes... You're still a leaky ship.

  • Control: Trust no one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream. Sit down. I understand you still have one Hungarian identity running.

    Jim Prideaux: I do.

    Control: I want you to go to Budapest. This is not above board. Nobody else knows. They're after my head, Jim-boy. You understand? I have had an offer of service. A Hungarian general wants to come over. I would like you to meet him. He has some information that I need, Jim.

    Jim Prideaux: What information?

    Control: Treasure. He has the name of the mole the Russians have planted in the British intelligence service, right at the top of the Circus. There's a rotten apple, Jim. We have to find it.