Ill watch this again and finish it this time. I just finished slow horses and i want more gary oldman being an oldman in espionage. Hopefully i wont sleep halfway.
This sequence is a work of art, with no dialogue it wraps up every single of the plot and every character, and the timing with the end of the song and the applause is brilliant
The second time I watched the movie I sat down with a clipboard and made one of those diagrams with individuals, aliases, relationships, boxes and arrows, and watched with a lot of pauses. Great move, as we all know.
[La Mer] Lyrics Somewhere beyond the sea Somewhere waiting for me My lover stands on golden sands And watches the ships that go sailing Somewhere beyond the sea She's there watching for me If I could fly like birds on high Then straight to her arms, I'd go sailing [Bridge] It's far beyond a star It's near beyond the moon I know beyond a doubt My heart will lead me there soon We'll meet beyond the shore We'll kiss just as before Happy we'll be beyond the sea And never again I'll go sailing [Outro] We'll meet, I know we'll meet beyond the shore We'll kiss just as before Happy we'll be beyond the sea And never again I'll go sailing And never again I'll go sailing And never again I'll go sailing
Mark Strong is such a solid actor. It only took three scenes to convey a very complex mixed bag of emotions. 😢His love was a traitor and duty demanded absolute reciprocity. All these feelings are conveyed without a word being uttered.. magnificent. A masterpiece.
i love the film but i think you have to know the book, or at least the 1979 tv series, to appreciate it. there's more back story than story. it's so chopped down i can't imagine it making a lot of sense to a first time film goer.
I will never get tired of Strong and Firth acting together. They’ve been real life friends for 30+ years and their chemistry onscreen just shows. They could not have chosen a better duo for Jim&Bill.
Had to be done. Even though Communism was en vogue among the educated classes from the 1920s up until the fall in 1989, there was no reason to sell your soul to Stalin. The British officer class despised the Americans for taking their place, and doing it without the goal of empire. I really pity the Cambridge 5. So arrogant, yet trained to rule the waves. Having to sit back and watch the Americans take over must have been a jagged pill to swallow. Britain had been punching above her weight for far too long. Unfortunately they propped up their class system for far too long and the world passed them by. Le Carre has a hard time with this fact as well. His misplaced indignation runs like a vein all through his work.
The final scene, underlaid by La Mer, is one of the best-edited, best-timed, best-acted denouements I've ever seen. It's the neatest bow on a superb, neat film. Everybody on-screen and off, at the absolute top of their game. It's perfection.
Pe li cu lon! Debe de ser de las mas subvaloradas. Tremenda. El trabajo de edicion encapsulando la esencia del msg de la peli en la cancion es un desbole de genialidad. No tiene desperdicio.🙌 ❤
With that final scene of Smiley sitting at the head of the table, all I can think is: It's not too late for Alfredson to adapt more John le Carre novels! I would LOVE to see more of Oldman as Smiley.
These are great because they aren't Spy Stories - their stories about people ... who happen to be Spies - and bring all their humanity with all it's Brilliance, Stupidity, Wisdom and Cruelty to it. They were people doing vastly important work - but - their intelligence and wisdom do not expand with the importance of what they were doing. So - they soldier on - doing the best they can. Sometimes they get buy ... sometimes they triumph and sometimes things really turn to shit. .
che buffo, colonna sonora de "la Talpa" composta dallo spagnolo Alberto Iglesias e ultima canzone del film cantata da Julio Iglesias, ma non sono parenti....
