De eerste vijf minuten van The International, de spannende, nieuwe thriller van Tom Tykwer met Clive Owen en Naomi Watts. Vanaf 16 april in de bioscoop.
After 9 yrs, I still can't get over it how brilliant and oversaw that picture is. Every frame in this opening has its stamp and significance. Ends up underlining a secret in the eyes of a dead man...and the most scary part, how impersonal the evil in this film is. You can't really trace the evil, because it is not strictly impersonated, as opposed to stupid hollywood filmalikes. In the International the evil is ubiquitous, impersonal and yet it is omnipresent. You get very specific, Kafkaesque vibe after this. I personally consider it very emblematic, that it turned out to be quite a flop in the box office.People quite often doesnt recognize the genius when it turns up. Same with Kafka. Overall this is an absolutely unprecedented mixing of arthouse filmmaking with big-budget thriller, but in favor for that arthouse part, much to the value and timelessness of the end effect.
The evil is ubiquitous, impersonal, yet omnipresent because it's systemic. This evil has its roots in the banking system and people are mere tools. In order to limit the evil, the debt system has to be reformed and reigned in.
It seems there were 5 or 6 potential suspects in this guy's murder. They all walk behind him at various times as leaves the car and approaches his colleague. The alphabet agencies have perfected 'heart attack guns' that can fire a small pellet that releases a toxic substance into a victim and causes an infarction. Umbrellas are known to be used as the weapon that propels the pellets, so of the several people who walked behind him, those with the brollies are most suspect. I personally think it was the guy at around 2:40. You only see him (and probably his partner) for a moment then he disappears behind the victim's back, not to be seen again, as the scene shifts to another angle. I think that he aimed and fired his "umbrella" when he disappeared behind the vic's back.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ls05PsIEaMI.html this is the same assassin later on in the movie- going off the massive bald spot. If you listen, you can hear a sound like a projectile being fired.
go to 2:26 u hear a swiz sound its really quite then the bald guy walks past behind him its definitely him because hes later in the movie as one of the assassins they are chasing its quite sound but i definitely hear something swoosh by when he passes him
i have watched this great movie many times. the big question for me still remains : who is the older guy really working for ? the bank executives hired him to be their “connection” but they are surprised when people are assassinated….but the older guy is giving the targets to the hitman! salinger thinks that the bank is having people killed but it is actually some unnamed person who is selecting targets and passing them to the hit man through the old man. in the final portion of the film, the old man agrees to work with salinger to bring down the bank ….. but he has been doing that from the beginning by working with/for someone that neither salinger or the bank know about. the old man’s death (and the bank chairman’s death ) are ordered by the sons of the politician/arms dealer who was killed….but the sons don’t know that it was not the bank who ordered their father’s killing. the old man dies without us knowing who he was really working for. did I miss something ? anyone out there know who the old man was really working for?
not sure but I think it is the old guy's (Armin Mueler Stahl) job to know who needs assassinating and when to do it, independently. at one point they tell him "it's your job to know this". the only scene I can think of that fits your description is when the executives learn that the Italian presidential candidate was assassinated and they just take it as a happy coincidence. I was slightly confused by that too.
He tries to get his memory back. BTW that film will be a classic in 50 yrs. It's because its very kafkaish and our times will be more and more like that
Swaggy P93 - It helps, when you're angry and disctracted it's difficult to remember things, but when you cool down and relax, your memory refreshes, the cooling down and relaxation ways differ from one person to another, and Salinger used ice. 😉
