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Clovis 2022-03-21 09:01:35

If you don’t understand it after reading it once, go buy the book, read it again after reading the book, and now you understand it. Not only did I understand it, but I also felt that it was not easy to make this movie. The book is very detailed. The movie has to press so many clues in 127 minutes, which is really not easy. So the basic background in the film is explained by a party in the mid-fifties.

Speaking of this party, is it 55 or 56? It was 55 years since Smiley went to see Kara, and Haydn finally confessed that he was devoted to the Soviet Union for 56 years, but since 50 years, he has provided Kara with unfavorable intelligence to the United States. And in 1955, Smiley was already at odds with Ann, and gave the lighter from Ann to Kara. Was this before or after Haydn seduced Ann? Haydn had seduced Ann because of Carla's suggestion, and Carla had met Smiley in '55 and knew he was a strong opponent, worthy of special vigilance. So Ann was unfaithful before Haydn? Smiley knew that Ann had found several doubles in order to cover up Haydn's existence, so he should have had a relationship with Haydn before covering it up.

The correct reasoning should be that Carla met Smiley and suggested that Haydn seduce Ann to disturb Stanley's judgment, and Ann cheated for the first time at the party.

But Smiley asked Carla to take the lighter when the relationship between the two deteriorated after Ann's derailment. How can this logic be pushed? Of course, if Haydn had told Carla about Smiley before, Carla suggested that he seduce Ann, so when Smiley went to see Carla, Carla could take this opportunity to observe her own achievements, so it made sense. . But it was somewhat unreasonable to report Smiley so deeply to Carla before Haydn was so committed to the Soviet Union.

Carla appears twice in the film, small, without showing her face. One was Jim in Hungary (the Czech in the novel) meeting with the contact person, and the other was Jim's trial scene in the Soviet Union, there are scenes of lighters. And the most important scene, the meeting with Smiley turned out to be Smiley's one-man show. This scene is really wonderful to let people hit the festival admiration, amazing. The grasp of the rhythm, the pause, the temperature of the eyes, change. Hear thunder in a silent place.

Haydn in the novel has a special and complicated background, which can be seen in the movie, but cannot be fully explained because of the space. Talented, painter, bisexual, and oddly enough, the lovers he himself were looking for were all low-class people, dirty young women, sailors from Notting Hill and the like. And his graffiti in the woman's apartment should be the most relaxed of himself, showing the taste of helplessness. In fact, he only loves Jim, and finally dying at the hands of Jim is probably the best ending. Ann was just his job. Smiley's observation was right, it was her trouble that Ann didn't get what Haydn had. But Smiley was still angry, which affected his sharpness somewhat. Kara's grasp of psychology is indeed accurate.

Colin Firth played Haydn, with talent and prodigal spirit in place, and the most brilliant part of dealing with Jim's assassination. But because I have read the novel, I feel that the description in the novel is better, and it is more suitable for imagining a man's madness for his lover.

Guillam in the movie was played by Cun Fu, who replaced the cohabiting girlfriend in the novel with a boyfriend, and added a crying scene, which was much more effective than the novel. If it was played according to the novel, Guillam alone would have been long-winded and long-winded. In the film, all the bridges that are not suitable for performance and the branches and leaves that are detrimental to the main trunk are cut clean.

There are too many metaphorical scenes in the movie, and you can't appreciate the beauty of it unless you watch it several times. In the end, Smiley held an umbrella and Pansy passed by with his bare head.

Whether it is a book or a movie, there has to be a process from understanding to understanding. Looks like I'll have to try and dig a little deeper.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy quotes

  • [Alleline's telex arrives from London]

    Ricki Tarr: Read it aloud.

    Ben: "Personal for Tarr from Alleline: require clarification before meeting your request. Quote, 'information vital to safeguarding of the Circus', unquote, does not qualify, send further information."

    Ricki Tarr: [laughing maniacally] That's the way, Percy boy! You keep stalling. I warn you, Ben, we've got some really lousy people in this outfit, I wouldn't trust a fucking one of them!

  • Percy Alleline: The Minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blowin' around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.

    Roy Bland: Percy does have a point, Control. We should be fighting communism, not each other.

    Percy Alleline: Well, we're losing our reputation. Our partners.

    Control: [scoffs] Your bloody Yanks!

    Percy Alleline: And we've had enough! There's going to be changes.

    Easterhase: We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.

    Control: I should have left you where I found you.

    Easterhase: Look!

    Roy Bland: Control-...

    Control: Out! All of you!