And in the context of the U.S.S.R. Cold War era, the entire film’s costume road soundtrack is superb, two small people of common beliefs are forced to roll into the international arena to dance head-on, involving elements of espionage, injustice, espionage, etc., the climactic scene is an excellent emotional rendering, more moving. Based on real events, the story of a British businessman who successfully prevented the outbreak of nuclear war by exchanging information with the Soviet Union during the Cold War before the imminent nuclear war crisis in Cuba. The film is shot very straightforward, not too many flashbacks, interludes of fancy complex narrative, but the complexities of the wrong also have some thrilling and tragic colors.
As a layman how the hero was recruited to become an alternative spy, the story is not lack of small sense of humor, and almost thought it was a light comedy. But then, he slowly adapts to this life, every time he meets with the other side, it is easy. The Soviet hierarchy slowly discovers that something is different, and unknowingly a crisis ensues.
The film does not over-glorify the Soviet defectors, Oleg Pankovsky is not completely love human heroic thinking, but antipathy to leaders like Khrushchev, strictly speaking it is her personal good or bad, decided the largest leak in the history of the Cold War! One of Pankowski’s experiences in the office may not seem to have much to do with the intelligence war, but the plot developments down the road can uncover the same mystery behind it and give more dramatic tension when the truth is revealed. The East German blockade of Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis make the story effectively follow the direction of history with a greater sense of realism.
The businessman who delivers the message, Revere Wayne, is also dancing to the baton of the Western hierarchy and is not very interested in political battles at heart! Does the hero know what his “goods” are? In the face of enemy awareness, he still went to the Soviet Union for the joint brothers to save the danger, the film’s bones portrayed the friendship between the two men in distress.
In addition to the double male drama of Revere Wayne and Oleg Penkovsky, CIA female agent Emily Donovan is also the only female figure in the whole film. It is a pity that as the plot deepens, the three slowly become the enemy of the jar, the other side relying on the number of people, the direct capture of the brothers, proving that they are too risky for this kind of secret service work!
From a businessman turned into a pawn in the political world, Revere Wayne was imprisoned, less words and actions to force a confession, “Curly” Benedict Cumberbatch acting skills is not bad. He not only lost 20 pounds, but also in the prison freezing, being drenched in water, as if sweat and tears are performing, so the second half of the delicate performance is eye-catching.
The two male protagonists in the Cold War era, life and death together, each to the brothers are not betrayed, and try to rescue by all means, has been moving enough! The two exotic comrades who have been imprisoned are under close surveillance, and it is difficult to have a plot conflict. I did not expect that the final meeting between the two in the cell would have a strong inciting effect.
The hero heard the news of the Cuban missiles from the visitors, but did not expect his good comrade to say helplessly in his cell, “I wanted to make myself safer, but I failed! It’s heartbreaking! Unexpectedly thin and bony Revere Wayne at this time grabbed his hand excitedly shouted: “Khrushchev dismantled the nuclear bomb, because of you!”
At this point, the soldier took away the hero tortured, almost broken, but excitedly shouted “You did it, Alex, you did it!” And was devastated super miserable comrades also secretly joy, the whole film instantly filled with an unprecedented sense of revolutionary victory, and in the heavy grief reached the uplifting!
Although the hero’s final risk of death to save, not only his wife opposed, his own informants also opposed, but he still had to go and failed! But the Soviet informant gave his life, in exchange for world peace! The blood, tears, and sorrows of this, it is clear that the tragic hero is distinguished, not by great ability, but by the courage to go to hell!
The Cuban nuclear crisis is long over, Khrushchev’s 9 years in power in the Soviet Union is history, and the British businessman hero was released without dying, while his Russian informant has gone to heaven! Turing of “The Decoding Game” said, “Sometimes it is the forgotten man who can accomplish what the world cannot imagine!”
I think, if in the absence of the Cold War peace era, I believe that the two heroes of this film will be drinking and talking with each other!
