Tango for one person

Isac 2021-11-12 08:01:17

I wanted to watch "The Potsmith" for half a year, half for Gary Oldman, half for the spy story obsessed with for a long time. I am not a loyal fan of 007. I know that with beautiful women and high-tech weapons, the spy is just a spice that adds flavor to the aesthetic experience. It would be better to call it the Adventures of MI6. "The Pot Master" restores my fantasy of spies, not surprising but inherently neurotic. Of course, spies are lonely.

Le Carré's novels are not as interlocking as the thrills of the movies. Compared with the subject matter of spies, they seem to be too quiet and calm, and they seem to be enveloped by a sense of the end of the British Empire, but they are like London's melancholy. Of the day. The film’s loyalty to the original work has moved me to the point that it is not only the plot, but also the harshness of the scene, which truly reproduces the sense of the text in front of the readers who have become the audience. , Gradually curled up in the shadow of the stage under the tide of history, mourning the vicissitudes of it. However, the round field in the novel is more like a group drama under the calm observation of Smiley's perspective. In the movie, there is no doubt that Smiley has to be the protagonist, so naturally he can no longer lead the audience like a tour guide, so he is an individual under the group portrait. The temperament has become too successful for "The Pot Crafter".

Smiley and Guillam seem to be one master and one servant, and the skill of worshiping veteran Gary and rookie Benedict can definitely be regarded as a leading performer. In the absence of the explosive scenes of gunfire, the passage of Guillam's stealing documents can be regarded as a breathtaking action scene, as is the original book. I said before that choosing a spy is to choose loneliness. Smiley and Guillam are just two spies who are tied together to perform a mission because of "gophers." This sense of loneliness can be seen in Smiley's instructions before Guillam steals the files. Smiley told him that you must do this alone, and if you miss it, don't say my name. This should not be a selfish performance, but the trust of the spy that is beyond the scope of emotion and reason. Without this loneliness, it would be difficult to achieve a "lone hero" style of chic back.

Smiley should be considered the loneliest spy in "The Potsmith". none of them. The mistrust of the boss is still the boss’s mistrust. In contrast, the derailment of the romantic wife is nothing. Even though I was listed on the suspicion list, my enthusiasm for digging out "gophers" has never diminished. I don't want to go online and say how loyal Smiley is to his organization. Since I have become a spy, it is instinct to endure loneliness and distrust. The word "instinct" made me suddenly recall the words on the back cover of the novel: Sometimes, betrayal is an instinct. There are a lot of people who can be called "betrayal" in "The Potsmith", Jim Prideaux, Bill Hayden, and even Smiley's inconspicuous wife Ann, but conversely, who is the position of this betrayal? "Gophers" work their lives for Russia and enter the round market to hide. What is the enemy or me? It is always not so clear from the perspective of the side and the interests of both sides. There is also a sensational treatment in the film. In the past, the Queen of Yuanchang turned out the photos of Jim and Hayden's classmates, and the friends like the friends and the friends with the shoulders and the backs smiled brightly. They are also the talents of Cambridge. The head of no return. What is called instinct, betrayal or loneliness, the biggest instinct is survival.

There is no plan in the novel of the Christmas ball, it is purely the director's genius. Even if you haven't read a novel, any audience with movie experience will definitely understand the purpose of this pen. Murderous intentions were hidden in the calm, and the secrets were unspoken, and even the mystery was revealed, and the scene of the ball flashed back when the round was badly injured. No matter whether there was a "gopher" or not, the colleague who was not a friend in the past can still sit. The time spent drinking, dancing and dancing together seemed to have such a precious warmth, and I realized that for spies who are accustomed to loneliness, it is not that they have no feelings, but feelings are too extravagant. I have always been very fond of spy movies. In fact, what I watch is not exactly the thrilling stories. As spies, the almost abnormal restraint in their bodies is too worthy of ordinary people who cannot match the intelligence business for a lifetime. In awe. Responding to the old saying, people can't help themselves in the arena.

Watching this movie, I always feel that there is a certain dance step circling in my mind, and the only thing left is Tango. Anyone with common sense knows that a person's tango can't jump, just like a spy. If there is no contradiction between people, naturally there is no need for a spy to do things. What Tango and spies have in common is this sense of separation between lips and teeth, the closer the face is, the further away the heart will be. The vigilance of looking back in three steps may have understood the identity of the dance partner from the moment when his hands were clasped, but he still had to finish the tune with a perfect fit, waiting for the thunderous applause when the dance step was stopped. The spy is so perverted, it's so dangerous that you are dead or alive, but still eager to step on a few more beautiful footwork in a beam of chasing light, dancing this one's tango, there is a kind of fatal beauty.

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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.