I've read Le Carré's book before, and to be honest, the translation is really average, and I think honors students are better in comparison, but that's mostly Jerry Westerby's story. If you analyze it from the perspective of novels, it is no less than a long story, after all, it is the length of a trilogy, but if you only look at it from the perspective of movies, when all the non-literal things in words are concretized in front of you, they are not Thoughtful.
In fact, the timeline of the movie still respects the original book, except that Jim Prideaux's shot was mentioned in the title and the scene was changed, most of which followed the narrative mode of the original book. The haze of London, the old houses, the bleak wallpaper, the various personnel in the Circus, and the occasional safe, this is a very different story from the gorgeous 007. The spies, in the final analysis, are in the state machine. Small people, if they screw up, they will bear great pressure, demote, reorganize, retire, etc.; they also have to go to the rare minister's secretary and the rarer minister to ask for funds and permission, and they also have own family issues. This is what Le Carré wrote, the ordinary spy story.
This story can be simplified as the round field (MI6) before and after catching the ghost. Jim Prideaux is shot -> Control and Smiley are "retired" -> Tarr reports to Lacon about mole -> Smiley returns -> Toby Esterase is pressed for details of the witchcraft plan -> Bill Haydon is finally discovered. The context seems simple, but the actions and thoughts of each person in it are so complicated.
Control's signature is just a capital C. In the final stage of his life, he was suspicious, irritable, and irritable. He didn't trust anyone except George Smiley. He had a bad attitude towards Percy Alleline. Everyone got out, but his intuition and literacy as a spy were first-rate. It was he who found the signs of mole and sent Prideaux to Hungary to bring the insider back. It was this mission that led to all the follow-up. matter. In the end, when the old man died in his hospital bed, it was not a bleak night scene, but it was very embarrassing.
Geaorge Smiley is smart, loyal, and has a high level of credibility. He is Karla's old rival, but he has suffered repeated setbacks in his marriage life. It seems that his wife Ann is difficult to stay under the same roof with him for a long time without a place in the middle. The state where the three are involved. He's a powerful man at work, and Smiley is also a ruthless man who can tell Peter Guillam that if the theft of documents is a problem Don't get me involved, but he has nothing to do with his love life. There are only two people in the movie who have never been filmed frontally, Karla and Ann, who can be said to be Smiley's ultimate opponent and the burden he has always had to carry. Every time at Smiley's house, the camera cuts to Smiley swimming alone in a lonely park after passing the letters, makeup, and clothing he keeps for his wife that show signs of a woman's presence. This man understands and knows a lot, but doesn't understand a lot.
Peter Guillam was traumatized when he was in North Africa, and his team was gallows one by one after being served in a pot, and he was the only one who escaped. It can be said that he has unconditional trust in Smiley, but when he went under Mendal's cover to steal the duty records in the archives, and was finally stopped by Esterhase to go to the meeting, the audience could even feel the sweat dripping from his back. . Even the quarrel with Percy Alleline at the meeting felt like a catharsis, even though the latter threatened him with jail time to shut up. Smiley said Karla knew Ann was his broken rib, and if you have anything wrong, Peter, you must have them tidied up. This is a scene that is not in the original book, but it is moving in the movie. Peter Guillam's same-sex lover was a teacher who was older than him. Under his lie, he thought there was a third party and left angrily. Guillam's face could not be seen on the camera, only that he was sad and crying after his lover left. From the attitude of the British government towards Turing at that time, we can see what kind of weakness it will be if this factor is not eliminated.
The film's description of Bill Haydon is somewhat weakened, and if it can refer to his friendship with Jim Prideaux from his time at Oxford, it can better show how deep his betrayal as a mole is. Prideux's last bullet passed through Haydon's cheekbones, blood flowing like tears, and Prideux also shed tears outside the bar. The friendship and years of the two finally left a group photo.
The tone of the film is gloomy and dark, as if London has never been sunny, everyone is struggling and entangled in self-contradiction, and in the end no one is redeemed. There are two Christmas scenes in the film, the first time Smiley reminisces about Control's time, and the second time he discovers his wife and Haydon's affair after singing the Soviet national anthem in an absurd rounder. These two scene memories can be said to be a series of clues. There are some things that Smiley can't explain clearly or doesn't want to explain clearly, but they really exist in the memories. In the good times of Christmas Party, behind the smiles of various colleagues, there are today's sighs and bitter fruits.
Ricki Tarr is a less important lead character, but he is the one most capable of self-seeking. At the end of the film, in the happy Christmas Party music, Prideaux kills Haydon, Smiley's wife returns home, he returns to the circle to take charge of the Great Seal, and Guillam looks at each other and smiles, but Tarr is waiting in the rain in Paris for the never to appear. lover.
In the house of Connie Sachs, Oxford, where there are flowers and young people who yearn for love and life, the talented female intelligence analyst took out old photos of the past and said to Smiley that it was a good time. Good old times, during World War II, Control was dressed in military uniforms, Prideaux and Haydon caressed each other's shoulders and smiled at each other. At that time, the circle was not so much love, hatred and irritability, and it had nothing to do with beliefs and ideology. People know why And why Zhan lives, he doesn't need to be suspicious of his colleagues, which is why Sachs misses him so much.
It is a pity that after those heroic years, the spy is old, and in the gap between the old era and the new era, where to go, hesitating.
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