A very famous spy war novel. Created by the famous spy war novelist John Le Carré. For spy war novels, I believe that everyone will have many different ways of understanding. Some people focus on the details themselves, the way of communicating with spies, the way of instigating rebellion, and the way of detecting undercover agents, etc., while others focus on spies. My emotional activities, how strong a person is on the surface, but how fragile is on the inside. For this film, personal feelings are more focused on emotional descriptions than the previous ones. Therefore, it may seem a bit abrupt in the connection between characters and events. Including the communication during the implementation of the Rotten Apple operation at the beginning, as well as the specific details of some subsequent operations, this film does not have much ink. However, despite this, it can't obliterate everything about this movie, and think it is a bad movie. After all, as the director and the preference of the times, there are bound to be vast differences in the way of explaining works of the same subject matter.
The emotions of the characters involved in the film are relatively tense, including three aspects: The first aspect is the relationship between Rich Tal and the Soviet female agent. Unlike the 1979 version, the role of the film’s Rich Carr is Tom Hardy, and in terms of character creation, he has been portrayed as an infatuated bachelor. This caters to the public's psychology to some extent. After all, if an agent has a wife, it would be shameless to have to deal with a Soviet female agent who loves him. The biggest difference between this film and the 1979 version in this regard is that in the 1979 version, Tal used the female agent and finally felt responsible for her. As for the emotion, it was through the side-by-side descriptive language of other people. It showed that at the critical moment, Tal cared most about his wife and children. In this film, Tal is sincerely sympathetic and fell in love with the female agent, and the female agent is likely to use Tal to seek asylum. Moreover, Tal's personal emotions are all reflected through Tal's own behavior and language, which must be more real in terms of expressiveness.
The second aspect is the emotional relationship between the actor George Smiley and his wife Ann. Through that gathering expressed through memories and through Smiley's perspective, the film showed his love for his wife and his sense of loss when he suffered betrayal. This is also helpful in portraying the character of the protagonist Smiley. Through his emotions towards his wife, we feel that these cold-blooded agents in our own concept are actually flesh and blood. They are also full of emotions. They will also be happy, angry, sad, and they will also feel the same as ordinary people in the face of blows. I think this is especially important for ordinary audiences. Another detail is the lighter that Smalley gave to the Soviet spy chief Kara. Of course, this lighter also appeared in the 1979 edition. Through this detail, it reveals Smiley’s own complex feelings about this emotion. On the one hand, this is his most cherished gift from his most cherished wife. On the other hand, he wants to be in such a way Forgetting his wife's betrayal to him, even forgetting his own love for his wife, I have to say that through this lighter, the emotional entanglement in the character's heart is fully expressed. At the end of the film, Smiley visited his wife. There was no character dialogue or character image in the film, but the slightly blurred picture and the wife's arm on Smiley's arm were left for him. To give the audience a certain amount of imagination, this also helps to a certain extent for the charm of the film.
The third aspect is the same-sex sentiment between Agent Jim and Bill Haydn. In the 1979 edition, the emotion between two people was described as revolutionary brotherhood. This may be limited by the times. In this film, the eye contact between the two at the party has already explained everything. Of course, I don't want to recklessly define the relationship between two people as "good friends". But in the end when Jim killed Bill Haydn with a sniper rifle, he still felt sadness in his heart. The two of them were silent, with tears in their eyes. Perhaps this was the so-called price. When all the reasons and excuses can no longer be said, maybe everything is already doomed. Although our minds have not changed, the facts that have been created will eventually lead to an extreme tragic destruction, but those tears make us feel more emotional In itself, with a new level of understanding, people may always make mistakes and even be sentenced, but the emotion itself may not change much because of this. In contrast, in the 1979 version, the two people had a dialogue at the end for a period of time. Moreover, it can be said that Bill Haydn is clearly going to die. In terms of character emotions, it seems that there is a lack of emotion, perhaps because the director does not want to write more. Many, I just want to paint this work as a work of revenge and justice.
Apart from emotional factors, perhaps the biggest entanglement of this work is the political struggle and intrigue in the spy warfare system. What distinguishes it from the political arena is that the spy warfare system involves many national security factors, and at the same time there are many ambiguities, such as double spies. Double agents have always been a wonderful existence. They are not loyal to any party and seem to be loyal to their own interests. Regarding double agents, what politically ambitious people think about most is how to use double agents to achieve political success and get promoted at the same time. Old leaders who really care about national security are likely to be defeated by the younger generation because of one or two failures. Overhead. In the final analysis, the stories in this film are all due to internal political struggles. In this process, as a Soviet spy, Bill Haydn took advantage of the political ambitions of Percy and others, and at the same time took advantage of the desperate behavior of the old director himself, and successfully maximized his own interests. I have to say that he is a very powerful person. Spy. It's a pity that maybe he has become soft-hearted. Whether it is for old friends or the means of cleaning internal personnel, he is slightly gentle, otherwise, it is very likely that the final truth will not be discovered.
From one person's point of view, in terms of overall style, this movie has a small shortcoming, that is, it lacks a certain sense of depression. Because it involves national security and personal safety, the film lacks a sense of swordsmanship. In this regard, the 1979 version has done quite well, both in terms of the investigation process and the performance of emergencies. In this film, some dramatic performances may be due to the relationship of time, including Smiley's memories of meeting with Kara, which are expressed through Smiley's personal language, including Smiley and Bill Haydn In the dialogue between Bill Haydn’s own thoughts, there was very little ink, including the scene when Smiley rushed into the room where Bill Haydn met with Soviet diplomats. If you enumerate such scenes in detail, there are still a few cases, but these are comparatively speaking. If you watched the film first, you might have another preconceived view, so I won’t comment on it here.
One thing that needs to be mentioned is that what the author John Le Carré himself wants to express through such novels is actually the psychological activities and style of the spy. I have seen an interview he accepted, reminiscent of the image of the characters in the novel. In fact, it is not difficult to conclude that the appeal of a work is not only the details, but the inner entanglement of the characters themselves is actually very fascinating. After all, as ordinary people, The life of a spy only exists in legend. In a word, if compared, the audience pays more attention to the development of the event in this work and the background connection of the characters themselves. The 1979 version is recommended. If you want to experience the emotional expression of the characters, this version Relatively speaking, it is slightly better.
Personally, I prefer the 1979 version, perhaps because of my preconceived ideas, but I always feel that that version can really make me feel the real depression, including the mystery of the spy, the danger of the mission, and The accidents that may happen at any time during the intensive investigation make me feel scared. If you pay attention to it, when Agent Peter went to steal the file, his hand was trembling all the time. Although this is commendable, it is somewhat inaccurate.
Every work will have flaws of this and that, although there are previous works, this film, as a new work, is generally notable in terms of expressiveness. Therefore, as a movie to understand the spy warfare, there are still some gains.
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