Agents are also ordinary people

Ericka 2021-10-20 17:25:44

The core of this movie's story is also a story of extramarital affairs and midlife crisis. But this is only the core of the story. Osbourne is a senior CIA analyst. He was inexplicably expelled from the CIA at the beginning. The frustrated Osbourne returned home and planned to write an autobiographical novel revealing the CIA's high-level secrets. His wife Katie was cold and didn't take him seriously. Hey, he secretly consulted a marriage expert, planning to get rid of Osbourne, and then be with his lover Harry, who is a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance, who used to work as an agent. Katie listened to the advice of a marriage expert and planned to copy her husband’s financial report, but accidentally used a disk containing Osbourne’s novels, and then accidentally landed in the gym. He was picked up by two live treasures in the gym, one was stupid. Chad, one is Linda, an old woman who insists on changing her appearance and wants to have a full-body plastic surgery. The two jokers thought they had obtained high-level secrets, so they began to blackmail Osbourne, but failed, and went straight to the Russian Embassy... and then The cruel Katie, the paranoid Osbourne, the lecherous Harry, and Chad, Linda (please note: all the roles are starred actors!)...The fate of all the people involved is changed by this, not dead I just fled to Venezuela. I was either a vegetative person, or I got the operation fee for some reason. This was not only because the people in the game panicked and messed up things one by one, but also because of a bunch of stupid people behind the CIA." help". In this movie, extramarital affairs have become commonplace. The periphery of extramarital affairs is a rabble of people whose actions are directed by hallucinations, even special agents.

The foundation of this movie is the novel "Highly Confidential: The President, the Director of the CIA, and the Special Agents" by Stanfield Turner, who served as the director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. The Coen brothers are going to do it this time, so naturally they want to seclude the CIA. silent. The CIA is the largest intelligence organization under the direct administration of the President in the United States. After 9/11, the personnel has been greatly expanded. The current director once said frankly: "The current research and analysis team is the youngest in the history of the CIA... In other words, it is disappointing. Said that this is the most inexperienced analysis team in the history of the CIA. "In order to recruit new recruits, the advertising company is also asked to design some recruitment advertisements that can attract attention. One work is a flying dragonfly, which flew to the CIA’s Technology Steering Committee to see how James Bond-style equipment was developed. The slogan of this advertisement is: "Leading technology and highly confidential." After the advertisement was broadcast, the personnel department of the CIA received 3,500 job resumes. Subsequently, the CIA made an advertisement for another department of the "State Secrets Force"... It is said that now the CIA's advertisements have ranged from technical media to fashion magazines, and even published an advertisement in the Arab Times. The CIA claims that they are looking for people who can unlock, understand disguise, and speak Arabic fluently... In short, no matter what kind of talent you are, the CIA may have a position for you. Presumably, this movie is aimed at this status quo. Although the characters in the movie have different personalities, they have very outstanding common points, that is-easy to suggest, stupid, greedy, poor reasoning ability, impulsive and unconscious, I am impatient, which shows a problem. No matter the agent, the intelligence agent, the president or the ordinary clerk, everyone is ordinary. In addition to the difference in appearance, there is a constant flow underneath that is difficult to control. Two hundred and five energy. In any case, the Coen brothers have nothing to say about their storytelling skills.

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  • Osbourne Cox: Some clown, or two clowns, have gotten a hold of my memoirs.

    Katie Cox: Your what?

    Osbourne Cox: Stolen it, or I don't know...

    Katie Cox: Your what?

    Osbourne Cox: My memoirs, the book I'm writing.

    Katie Cox: Well why in God's name would anyone think that's worth anything?

  • Ted Treffon: Linda, what do you really know about this guy?

    Linda Litzke: I told you, he's in the Treasury Department.

    Ted Treffon: But eh, no, I mean, you know... he could be one of these guys that cruises the Internet.

    Linda Litzke: Yeah, so am I...