In "Berlin Spy", Limas gave up his last life when his lover was shot under the Berlin Wall and resolutely chose the ending of martyrdom. In fact, there was a foreshadowing.
"Around eleven o'clock the next morning, he decided to go for a walk by the sea. He was smoking a cigarette and staring at the sea in a dull daze. There was a girl by the sea who was feeding the seagulls bread with her back to him. The sea breeze was blowing her. Her long hair and clothes made her figure like a bow, a bow aimed at the sea. He knew that this feeling could only be found in Liz, and if he could return to England, he must pursue it well . Pursuing a plain life, you can take a piece of bread as you like and go to the sea to feed the seagulls. These ordinary little things are luxury for Limas. Whether it is the pursuit of plainness or the pursuit of love, whether he can go back or not , he has a shadow of Liz in his heart. Maybe in a week or two, he will be able to go home. The boss said that the other party paid all the money to him, and that was enough." The following content appeared: "Lee Maas walked to the window. Outside the window, over the gray North Sea, there were dense dark clouds, and a storm was coming. He saw seagulls circling under the dark clouds. The girl by the sea was long gone." (Original content) These two paragraphs echo each other, Limas' fantasy of a happy retirement and a happy ending to love bursts like a bubble in the sea at this moment. And what he has to face next is a storm that is enough to make him shattered.
The thrilling and life-threatening spy life is completely revealed through this brief moment of overlooking the sea. The 64-year-old "Berlin Spy" movie version played this plot. When he heard the news that he was betrayed by the organization when he was performing the task that the organization gave him, and confirmed it from the newspaper with his own eyes, Burton. Although the series of changes on his face seemed to be quite subtle, it was accompanied by the reaction of slightly widened eyes and disbelief, shock, pain, and panic.
Then he forced his composure, got up and walked to the window with a heavy heart. With no one in the room and his back to the door, so that the enemy spy would not find his expression flawed, he slowly raised his head and looked at the distant sea outside the window. At this moment, his true emotions were fully revealed, full of disillusionment and despair. .
At this time, in his extremely light and pale eyes, there seemed to be a scene of dark clouds filling the sky, and a terrifying sea storm was about to sweep the sky and cover the sky, which was extremely dangerous. And the small tear mole under the right eye added a tragic color to the scene.
Even so, he still regained his composure after a few seconds, abandoned his undeserved love of children, and began to quickly think about how to save himself when he was about to be seen by the enemy, and how to save himself according to the situation while saving himself. The latest changes to adjust the strategy. It can not only complete the established tasks, but also find a way to survive.
With the changes in his eyes and micro-expressions for more than ten seconds, Burton explained the hesitation, pain, conflict and struggle of this retiring old spy written by John Le Carré when he was about to die, but he obeyed his professional instincts. And the loyalty to the organization, giving up his beautiful yearning for love and peaceful old age, and finally embarking on this road without hesitation, the process has come alive.
After reading this, I really sighed for him. Not only for Limas, but also for integrating everything about this character into his own bone marrow, as if the two souls were one, as if the character and the body were the same Richard Burton.
I have to say that his performance really has a kind of magic power, it seems that he is born with it, and he can easily conquer the audience without much effort and without too much passion. I can't think of any more summary words than "great".
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