"The Potsmith, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" tends to show the mentality and life of different characters in the Cold War in a cool, more literary way. Even the process of revealing who is a spy in a climax scene is also a psychological suspense and thriller. This makes the film exudes a depressing and cold tone as a whole, not to mention the rich, detailed, and seemingly unrelated lines, details, etc., which need to be tasted slowly.
The film has no exciting gun battles and car chases, no thrilling action scenes, and some of them are secret battles of a group of old men, holding meetings, smoking cigarettes, and full of smoke. This is a hidden Nordic style British style. Spy film. Director Thomas Alfredson used a fragmentary deciphered narrative, and at the same time used a combination of flashback retrospective shots and narratives and other narrative methods, which not only made every link of the whole process want to say but also ceaselessly. Leaving suspense is a new era spy film with a difference.
"The Potter, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is a condensed maze-like whole spy novel. It takes 120 minutes to grasp the challenge of people. Everything is a contest of wisdom, bursting with wit in the crisis, analyzing in the dark Dark, the film does not have any stimulating shots of gunfights or drag racing. The story is condensed into a cold film that is like winter rain. The director is very good at leaving subtle clues in a silent manner. The most wonderful thing is that all clues are endless. , All the stories of the story and the emotional latitude, only a little tap is left. The film has a peculiar internal attraction. From the perspective of the rhythm of the story, the suspense is not always detonated, but is walking crept forward in tranquility. In terms of color, the earth is haze, the sky is gray, and the shadow of the earth is whirling, as if there is a big grey net everywhere, sometimes fluttering and sometimes tightening. This extremely calm British style successfully transformed a sad and grainy visual expression into a spiritual feeling.
