British film actors have long been known for their emphasis on classic drama theory and practice, as well as personal cultivation. They are good at expressing introverted and complex emotions, constructing authentic and credible character behavior motives, and from this, deriving rich behaviors, making performances no longer just A wonderful performance is almost a partial interception and display of the river of behavior after the character's impersonate, and it also brings movie watching, an entertainment that Hollywood has created to be close to masturbation, to a height close to the drama.
As the world's top author of spy novels, an important aspect of John Le Carre's achievements is that the value of his works transcends genre novels, and is not limited by the contradiction of national/individual interests and related political factors, as well as the changed protagonist's fate. blah, blah. The most important thing in his works is the person first, the character and motivation of the character, followed by his social role, his environment and the conflicts and changes he encounters, and the consequences of his actions. Whether the drummer, Munich, the eternal gardener, or the most famous tinkerer, the protagonists are always in action, that is, always manipulated by their own beliefs, and at the same time constantly. to examine and reflect on self-behavior and beliefs. It is in this action that completes the plot that we are able to further examine the absurdity of our actions and the inevitability of consequences.
The Tinkerer, Le Carré's most admired work, features a real and convincing world of espionage, mingled with large, slow bureaucracies, sophisticated and brutal conspiracies, where one act is the cause of another, or Cover; heroism is often a poor and pitiful tragedy. smiley in tinker has entered the trilogy and the highest level of the whole, no longer driven by self-love (cold spy), collectivism (smiley's people), heroism (medal of honor); as for beliefs and values , our smiley has never been superficial enough to believe that work is just work, an essential and replaceable link. In this work, smiley plays the role of Le Carré, trying to examine and observe the legitimacy and rationality of the actions of the characters around him; he keeps on acting, but he listens and thinks more, what are the lies? Is the lie itself, some kind of acknowledgment of the unconscious?
The reason why I talk about the original book is too long because the background of the original book is too deep and rich, which adds countless silences to the film, otherwise it is just another somber and heavy British Academy film.
First of all, I would like to thank the director. His grasp of the original work is well reflected in the plot changes and choices at the structural level of the entire film. Using jim to be betrayed and shot to start the game, circus turned upside down. Smiley stepped down with the general manager, which ignited the fuse of the story in a short and clear way; the subsequent minister Lacan's "conspiracy" met several times, Peter's escort, and Kang The meeting between Ni and Tal, the final layout and the closing of the network, basically follow the normal development of the story, so that audiences without reading experience can enjoy a wonderful spy story; at the same time, he also used a lot of memories to supplement For details, the audience can follow smiley to find clues of the mutiny, and of course, they are also reminiscing about the past. The use of this flashback somewhat retains the style of continuous multi-angle narration and recollection in the original book, and also adds to the gloomy taste of "the past is gone". At the same time, the scene where jim was captured was originally very thrilling and dramatic. It was one of the few wonderful descriptions of the spy field operation in the original book, secret code joints, throwing off tracking, pinning and anti-pinning, and even tanks appeared. and the scene where the army hunts jim in the woods. However, if this scene is put into the movie, the gloomy and rational temperament of the whole movie will be completely broken and become an alternative 007 movie.
In the original work, Jim is Bill Hydon's lover, and Bill's bizarre murder after his arrest has become a mystery in the novel. The relationship between the two has never been clearly shown in the movie, but at the end of the Christmas party, the eyes of the two crossed each other, Jim's infinite admiration, and Hydon's calm acceptance, were all evident in the smile on the corner of his mouth. In the end, Jim, who was abandoned and betrayed, picked up his rifle and killed Bill. He completed the plot of the novel and gave a reasonable answer. This is better, or it is better to keep the suspense. I am afraid it is a matter of opinion: I am more inclined to The director's approach avoids unnecessary suspense that distracts the audience.
At the same time, some of the director's designs are very authentic: gary oldman's huge short-sighted eyes reminded me of the description in the original book more than once, "When he took off his glasses and wiped them, the pink eye blisters were exposed, which made people feel as if they were looking I feel a little embarrassed when I get naked." This prop is complemented by gary's focused and emotionless eyes, which makes people feel that he only has a calculated mind who can act and ask questions, and has no personal likes and dislikes and emotions. . However, his slight emotions can be magnified through the glasses in the close-up, which is heartbreaking.
Second, gary oldman's performance once again exceeded my expectations. The complicated emotions like a bereaved dog when forced to leave the job, the calmness in the process of investigating the conspiracy, the tiredness of recalling the past to Peter, the decisiveness of the conversation with Toby, and finally sitting in the seat of the general manager as the guardian of the British Empire The last shot on the film perfectly conveys the ability of an old spy that cannot be ignored and underestimated, including planning a conspiracy and seeing through another conspiracy.
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