The film was on the topic that was so unfamiliar with us. It was an autobiography of Hoover, the first head of FBI. He held the office for 37 years.
It is hard to think a truly democratic nation likes US would allow a person to sit on such an important post for so long. Where is the check and balance? That's real-politik, huh. There would never be perfect thing. So, if you were the president, Hoover threw a file about your wife's secretive homosexual life on your face, you would have let him serve his country, like those smart presidents did.
DiCaprio dominated the play from start to finish. He acted so well, yet has not been nominated for the Oscar. It confirms the later a ridicule. The movie was fine. Nevertheless, it was a bemusing moment that when Hoover and Tolson kissed, the full house laughed. Clint Eastwood could never manage to handle the Brokeback Mountain.
There are quite a number of films on espionage, more or less. For light-hearted one, we have The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And after J Edgar, we would have Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which would be launched in March. By watching both movies, it would be a good way to compare how dirty things would be conducted between the American and English ways, though Hoover was a genuine guy whilst Smiley a fictitious character.
2012年2月28日 星期二
2012年2月22日 星期三
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - 20120222
Some books could only be admired when you are getting older. This novel is one of those.
Malcolm Gladwell said he has read the book once every five years since he was 15. He started to understand it the third time, that is, when he was 25. If it is true, he is pretty clever, as I doubt I could know an ounce by reading it at the same age. And I have never read any of Gladwell's best sellers.
The novel gets merely 252 pages. Nevertheless, it shines on every aspects. The structure of the story, the beauty of some sentences and most of all, the sharpness of views.
John le Carre is a maestro of story-telling. He traps readers by deftly twisting the story at any point he likes. I knew it from The Most Wanted Man. And The Spy Who Came in from the Cold does an even better job. It is a set-up of set-ups. So, re-reading is necessary to have better understanding of the plot.
People contrast le Carre's works to Fleming's. James Bond is a mass thing. It could be exciting while watching 007's movies. Regarding le Carre, his work gives a profound depiction to human beings, via the squalid operation of espionage. While finished reading this novel, I was so thrilled and moved.
le Carre is still alive at his eighties. I am quite interested in his acting in the coming film, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Malcolm Gladwell said he has read the book once every five years since he was 15. He started to understand it the third time, that is, when he was 25. If it is true, he is pretty clever, as I doubt I could know an ounce by reading it at the same age. And I have never read any of Gladwell's best sellers.
The novel gets merely 252 pages. Nevertheless, it shines on every aspects. The structure of the story, the beauty of some sentences and most of all, the sharpness of views.
John le Carre is a maestro of story-telling. He traps readers by deftly twisting the story at any point he likes. I knew it from The Most Wanted Man. And The Spy Who Came in from the Cold does an even better job. It is a set-up of set-ups. So, re-reading is necessary to have better understanding of the plot.
People contrast le Carre's works to Fleming's. James Bond is a mass thing. It could be exciting while watching 007's movies. Regarding le Carre, his work gives a profound depiction to human beings, via the squalid operation of espionage. While finished reading this novel, I was so thrilled and moved.
le Carre is still alive at his eighties. I am quite interested in his acting in the coming film, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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