Everything is like a game.

Immanuel 2021-12-25 08:01:25

Human nature in love is the most complicated. Especially when the protagonists and heroines are professional seniors: well-trained former CIA professional agents. Jealousy, possessiveness, feelings mixed with distrust, interests and desires are intertwined, all these are the best blueprints to produce. But fortunately, because of Julie with Big Mouth, I knew from the beginning that the ending would not be too bleak. This is also the reason why I like old American movies more and more: the same element often becomes a depressing story in Asian culture, but in old American, it is just an experience in life...friends and enemies, there is no eternity.
Okay, go far, and go back to the movie itself.
It was full of joy at the beginning. The meeting of the two giants at the airport made me chuckled in the theater: two teams of men and horses, each other in suits, every wrinkle on the ceo's faces seemed to tell of life and wisdom: but yes These two men fought in front of everyone like children. Everything is like a game. The banter and exaggeration at the beginning set the tone for the entire film.

What impressed me most was the interweaving of different time and space, the interweaving of truth and lies, and the ridicule revealed everywhere. The interlacing of time and space obviously puts a test on the director's skill and the audience's patience. But it is also a necessary factor for the plot and suspense; the lies between men and women, the lies between men and women and the outside world, the lies between the two teams, and the old saying in China is that the mantis catches the cicada, the oriole again After; the secret valued at 3.5 million US dollars is not a high-tech weapon, but just a hair restorer formula: Yes, I know that over the counter consumer market is very good and powerful, but I still feel funny seeing this special setting : Everything is extraordinarily funny.

The best moment in the memory is their conversation at the Swiss airport: each other is careful, feelings and interests conflict, mutual suspicion and temptation, but in the end they still love each other. After experiencing all kinds of lies and betrayal, I finally said the real feeling "i know you are the only man who can understand me...i love you". And at the end, when enjoying the bubble in the hotel, everything is lost. The smarter the person is, the more defenseless it is. Fortunately, at that time, there were champagne and high heels, and we still had each other.

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Extended Reading
  • Julia 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    I fell in love like a fist, every time I guess.

  • Alysson 2022-04-20 09:02:00

    When I saw Owen in person, he was so handsome

Duplicity quotes

  • Claire Stenwick: My caper's in the Bahamas. Where's yours?

    Ray Koval: Cleveland.

  • Ray Koval: This wasn't an accident, was it? Being here. Meeting like this. You came looking for me, didn't you?

    Claire Stenwick: You'd like that, wouldn't you?

    Ray Koval: I'm right, though, aren't I?

    Claire Stenwick: Because you went looking for me, right?

    Ray Koval: But why? Just for this?

    Claire Stenwick: Isn't that enough?

    Ray Koval: Not for you.