Deepness and elegance in peace

Augusta 2022-06-04 20:38:02

This is a spy movie about the British MI5 (MI5) story. We are more familiar with MI6 because it has a famous 007. However, MI5 and MI6 are actually equivalent to the FBI and CIA in the United States. It's just that MI5 focuses on domestic security, while MI6 focuses on national security and has more external activities, so there are agents like 007 appearing around the world.

In fact, in the United States, there are a lot of films about FBI agents, and they can be played very well. However, "Page Eight" does not bring together the elements of action. In the words of action director David Hare: "Although this is a spy film, it does not have as many explosions, car chases, and chases like popular spy films. Action scenes, the most in the film is some literary drama and political expressions. I created a dark, sharp and cold style in the film to make the film more realistic."


Hale added: "This is the case. A movie requires a few outstanding actors to be shot, so I found a lineup like Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes in the film. "However, this is just a TV movie, yes. A small production in the absolute sense, but the actors gathered Bill Nye, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, and Michael Gangben. They were very attractive, and their performances were all well thought out. In the small production, I still live up to my reputation. I just watched Bill Nye’s other films and watched this one along the way. Moreover, this film is also run through by his awe-inspiring air. His unsmiling dress in suits and leather shoes in the film really made a deep impression. It can also be said to be fascinated by Lori. Uncle, the pseudo-loli who are more suitable for "uncle control" to check it out.


As a spy film, there is no action and life and death fighting, but entangled in the political ecology. Through the identity of the MI5 executive played by Bill Nye, we can see MI5 and the British political ecology, which reveals under the calm lens. A kind of depth and elegance, slowly, there are also some beauty that can be enjoyed and appreciated.


The background of the story is that during Tony Blair’s tenure as prime minister, Britain’s foreign policy followed closely with the United States. It can be said that it followed suit and became a veritable little brother of the United States. This was initiated in the 2001 Afghanistan War led by the United States and in 2003. The performance was particularly obvious in the Iraq War. For this reason, there was a bomb incident on the London Underground on July 7, 2005. During the rush hour of the morning, there were at least seven bombings in the London chain. The explosion caused 52 deaths and more than 100 injured. Several underground railway stations and several buses exploded. This was also identified as a terrorist attack by then Prime Minister Blair. Local attacks caused by the British foreign policy have made the atmosphere within MI5 even more tense. Because this shows to some extent the disadvantages of their work. It is against this background that the film "Eight Page" was released, and it is this MI5 that is full of tension, which indirectly sees through the entire high-level political ecology of the UK.

The story tells of prisoner abuse incidents committed by the United States in dealing with terrorists, incidents like Guantanamo Prison, and Britain, as a close ally of the United States, is also suspected of being involved in the same. At least it is the insider. Regarding the performance of Prime Minister Blair in this series of incidents, he was deeply involved in the scandal of prisoner abuse after he left office. And "Shadow Writer" describes the problem from another aspect. In "Page Eight" it is a kind of transaction. While Blair was still on stage, the suspected Blair prime minister played by Ralph Fiennes concealed the abuse of prisoners from the public harshly, and was in contact with MI5 In the transaction, the complete scene that happened behind this is well revealed. It is also the core of the whole movie. Of course, the love between beautiful women is just to enrich the movie's viewing ability.

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Page Eight quotes

  • Johnny Worricker: I had a feeling that if I asked a favour you were a sort of person who'd come through.

    Nancy Pierpan: You trust me. Why on earth would you trust me?

    Johnny Worricker: Because that's the job. Deciding who to trust. That's what the job is.

    Johnny Worricker: Also, you told your father that I work for the Home Office.

    Nancy Pierpan: I lied.

    Johnny Worricker: Yeah.

    Nancy Pierpan: You trust me because I lied.

  • Johnny Worricker: The purpose of intelligence is to find the truth, not to confirm what we already believe. We're meant to look for what's there, not for what we want to be there.

    Rollo Maverley: Come on, Johnny! Once they wanted communists, we gave them communists. Now they want Arabs, we give them Arabs. They decide what they're looking for, we find it for them.

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