The two-hour movie has no time to pay attention to the spy career of this great spy that has been changing throughout his life, and he has no interest in the inner world that should logically be quite complicated and confusing.
All the viewers are concerned about one question: "Why is this person renegade?" He is a senior official of the Intelligence Bureau, only two months away from his glorious retirement. He has an innocent family background, a good father, a good grandfather, and a loyal Catholic who believes in the will and dogma of God. For such a person, why should he betray his country, violate his religion, and sell intelligence to the arrogant Soviets who believe in neither God nor capitalism?
The film only took less than 20 seconds to briefly explain: for the money, for Ego, for the things that everyone can imagine... Why is there a why? The reason is not important, the reason is meaningless. This kind of interpretation is a two-to-two tactic devised by American directors and screenwriters, but unfortunately it is very clumsy. The place that should have been the most attractive has been taken lightly with sophistication.
Or the director thinks that no audience needs to understand the inner struggle of a traitor. They only care about how the righteous side is nervously monitoring and tracking, and how people will arrest and imprison this guilty man. What is important for such a story is the righteous standpoint and the sparse and unobstructed ending of the French Open.
I can't help but compare this movie with the novel "The Perfect Spy" by John Le Carré. It is also a story of apostasy by a senior intelligence official. The novels of the British are far more than the films of the Americans. Pingen in Le Carré's works is a man of flesh and blood that makes it impossible to distinguish easily. It is a story that will make readers look around and cry when the final ending arrives. As a result, the biggest role of Breach's movie is to make me realize what a wonderful work "The Perfect Spy" is.
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