If fate bites you restlessly, please hold its throat quietly

Mariano 2022-02-22 08:02:24

George Smiley, with slightly gray hair, is a retired agent. His daily pastime is to go to the bookstore. He always encounters bad luck. When it rains, he is splashed with water. When he meets his former colleague, he is dragged to accompany him in a chat. There is nothing to vent. He can only curse a few to himself. However, even so, he still maintained the agent's vigilance and sensitivity, and more importantly, calm and rational.

No matter how many times someone asked, "How is lovely Anna?" He always answered calmly, she was fine, thank you.

The beautiful Ann has always been a huge puzzle in this show, and it is almost as unstoppable as who is the mole. And this puzzle didn't reveal the tip of the iceberg until the last moment, and there was no more lens. It is the keynote of the film: extremely restrained.

The former subordinates approached the door and said that the higher-ups wanted to see him. George chatted a few words at random, and it was almost clear to his heart. The high-level delegated important tasks, and he said indifferently and sarcastically that he had retired and could not control anything. When the senior management moved out of Control's love of the year, George agreed and quickly listed the resources, permissions, and manpower he needed.

The names in the novels and dramas are very interesting, such as Control, George's old boss. In the end, Control didn't live with Control. Mole got under his eyelids. He couldn't get it out of life and death. He jumped in and crashed instantly. Then there is Circus, the intelligence agency. The saying of Circus can be said to be extremely pungent and humorous? Satire? Ridicule? Self-black? I'm afraid it's both. The other is the pot maker, the tailor, the soldier, the poor, the beggar, the name is taken from the nursery rhyme, and the children can chant. Control determined that there must be a mole among the five of his right-hand men, and asked Agent Jim, who had just returned to China, to help him connect with an insider, and asked Ming's gangster. In order to prevent leaks, each assistant was given a code name, namely, potter, tailor, soldier, poor, and beggar. Hey! My spoiler tells me that the tailor betrayed you, but can you remember who is a tailor or not?

Obviously Jim remembered, but he couldn't bring back the information about mole. He was shot and then lost contact. After the failure of this operation, Control was devastated and quickly passed away. George Smalley firmly believes that Control is not old-fashioned. Indeed, there are insiders among the senior management. He was quickly swept out of the circle of power and lived a light retirement. The reason why the senior executives sought out Smiley this time was because of new clues that proved that Control's judgment on mole was very accurate. He was almost infinitely close to the truth, but he was powerless. George Smalley was the only senior agent capable of clearing the suspicion, and this appointment was none other than him.

George Smalley is resolute and resolute, but his movements are very calm, even a bit slow that is characteristic of old age. Seeing tepidity but invisibly produces a kind of shocking aura, making the lie impossible to escape. His thinking is meticulous. Mole is one of the top leaders of the intelligence agency. It is not easy to find out the truth from under his nose. It is not an exaggeration to say that the slightest loss is life-threatening. But Smiley was still gentle and calm when assigning the task, and his subordinates accepted the task with the same attitude. Everyone played tightrope walking.

There are two stories interspersed in the middle. One is Ricky's story that brings new clues. Ricky is a foreign agent. Confidently ran to copy the nest of the enemy agent. But accidentally ran into the other party's "wife", who was obviously also a member of the agent. Neither side revealed the identity of the other side. But secretly made an appointment. Ricky naturally moved the two thoughts of Aventure and Instigation, but unexpectedly, sister paper had moved her true feelings. Ricky was somewhat overwhelmed. While exploring priceless information, sister paper paid the price of her life. Ricky didn't want to understand, which step was revealed by his cautious actions, and how this incident seemed to have never happened before, without a trace.

Ricky’s date was chosen in the cemetery, a high cliff with the sea underneath. The Soviet girl in a flimsy dress cried and said that you just want information, but then said, since information makes you happy, then I will tell you. After the girl lost contact, Ricky leaned on the stone wall to finish reading her diary, and stood in the middle of the cemetery for a long time.

Ricky didn't tell all the truth, it didn't matter, Smiley quickly filled in all the facts. The executives expressed their dissatisfaction with Ricky's lying, but George said that if he didn't hide him, he would not be a good agent.

The other is Jim's story. A man with much more vicissitudes of life than his actual age was carefully observing the surroundings on the hillside in the wilderness. He taught the children to read: potters, tailors, soldiers, poor people, beggars, and taught them to pay attention to strangers around him. He even had one. A gun. He is Jim, the agent Control sent to the joint. The mystery of the pot maker, tailor, soldier, poor man, and beggar lingered in his mind. Who betrayed him? He was suffering from illness, it was no longer the same year, and he had reached a point where no one but the children he taught could believe him. He didn't have the habit of thinking bad things about people. Even if he was betrayed by others, he was still willing to believe that he was just unlucky, but Control was confused, and the struggle between believing and unbelief had tortured this once strong man enough.

The ending song is particularly interesting. I slowly sing hymns against the background of the church. It is not sad, tragic, let alone passionate. It can even be said that there is nothing to say, but it is very suitable for the occasion: I am not happy or sad. , The road always goes down.

For example, George Smalley, who was separated, Peter, who had all of the more than three hundred agents who developed his own development because of the mole’s existence, was dismissed, such as the guilty Ricky who was in love with someone he shouldn’t love, such as the guilty Ricky who betrayed everyone. I found tailors who were disillusioned at both ends but could only bite the bullet, such as Jim, who was betrayed and injured and almost useless, such as the old lady who was swept out of the game because of his amazing memory and only succeeded in noticing the abnormality (I Forget the name), such as Ann, who knows no one is as good as George but inevitably gets cheated and finally derails, or Kara, who is betrayed by his own and turned into a prisoner but is determined to fight back. Everyone is sad or happy, not sad or not. , Always go on.

If destiny bites you restlessly, please hold its throat quietly.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy quotes

  • Bill Haydon: Got a rabbit to pull out of your hat, Percy? You've got that Britain-can-make-it look about you. Very intimidating.

  • [Lacon has arrived late for a conference]

    Oliver Lacon: I'm sorry. Traffic. I should've walked.

    Bill Haydon: I think you and Percy between you are contriving to keep me off the streets.