J Edgar - 20120228

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.