Film review

[摘要] Remember John Le Carré? He is the writer who brought us those memorably seamy novels, many of them later turned into successful films, on the moral ambiguities of the Cold War, when agents who looked nothing at all like Sean Connery gradually lost any sense of what they were fighting for, which side they were on, and even what might constitute a meaningful act. Perhaps their most attractive trait was their ability, even while engaging in blackmail, extortion and other kinds of nastiness, to recognise in their opposite number a brother-in-arms. Playing the game was the thing. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an outcome for which the real-life equivalent of Smiley and the sorry band of trilbies in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) can take little credit, Le Carré has had to look elsewhere for murk.

[学科分类] 卫生学