Going back to this movie, this movie is just a joke of a mantis hunting a cicada and a sparrow behind. The storm-like climax and ending are definitely making people sweat and take a breath in the last few minutes of the movie. . However, this film adapted from the new work of John Le Carré lacks the close multi-line narrative and a lot of information in the novel. Compared with the splendid spy war drama "The Potmaker Tailor Soldier Spy", the foreplay of this movie seems to be slow.
The film tells the case of a suspected Islamic extremist Karpov from Chechnya who came to Hamburg, Germany, between a team headed by Buckman played by Hoffman and a government organization headed by the US ambassador. They used this A suspect serves as an introduction to investigate whether an Islamic businessman has secret contacts with Al Qaeda. First of all, Buckman's organization is not a formal legal organization. They seem to be the Stasi of the German intelligence service (the secret police in East Germany). In the film, they only use a group of people around the target to approach the target, so the film emphasizes the organization's work process and lines. People network. The contradictions and competition between them and the German government are not prominent, and they even exchange intelligence between them, like collaborators. In addition, a very long voyeuristic scene followed. The narrative mode is very similar to "Eavesdropping Storm", monitoring the "fake drama" between Karpov and a female left-wing pacifist. There are a lot of meaningless chats and trivia in the script, although some of the content also pave the way for the plot later. For example, Buckman and a female colleague talked about Karpov’s surname, in order to later tell Karpov’s relationship with his father. It's hard to pave the way. However, some redundant jokes and small talk seem to be not compact and concise.
In this film, the young Muslim believer is not a terrorist as imagined by the West, but the film’s images are an excellent representation of the suspect’s dangerous situation in Hamburg. The photographer of this film has shot "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" and other masterpieces. In the performance of the suspect, he used some exaggerated wide-angle lens to place the suspect in a pile of debris, or just The "little ants" in the windows of distant buildings indicate that Karpov is imprisoned in this new environment in Germany. The Hamburg shot by this photographer is not a charming German seaport city, but a messy, dark place full of graffiti and small advertisements. This place also highlights the film's film noir texture. In addition, the excellent image control comes from the depth-of-field lens. The following lens tells the audience what is about to happen at the end of the movie through visual language through the black car that appears behind the protagonist.
The theme of this film is more in line with the current topic than when the original novel was published. The film was released in June and July when ISIS was on the rise. Let a relatively peaceful country plunge into the flames of war that lasted for ten years. Of course everyone knows that their real reason is to exclude dissidents. The film still portrays the image of an American female official whose goal is to exclude dissidents. Although there is only this American woman alone, behind her is an elite team of men from the German Ministry of Internal Affairs. It can be seen that the German government is in To some extent it has become a vassal of the Americans.
All in all, this is a spy war movie with a cold breath, with wonderful group performances and ingenious photography. The climax of the film is very exciting. But the most important thing is that this is one of Mr. Hoffman's posthumous works, and there are only a few movies left that can make us miss the wonderful acting brought by this actor.
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