so, um yeah. i didn't get it. i mean i know what happened, but only at the end. was it supposed to be like that? i have no idea. most of the time i was just confused. mind you, steve warned me in an advance that i was likely to be confused. he said it would probably be "boring and cerebral" which is right up his alley and nowhere near mine.
i enjoyed the two hours in the theatre. the last movie we saw in the theatre was unstoppable, and that was probably over a year ago. i very much enjoyed my nachos!
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a film based on the books by John le Carre, which i am to understand is a pen name for someone who actually was a British spy during the Cold War. the premise of the film is that there is a mole among the "circus" which apparently is the spy organization, and this dude Smiley is called out of retirement in order to figure it out. i basically got all that. the story is told in layers, it moves around a lot, in the past and in the present. sometimes i had a hard time following the switching, although that is all me, and probably will not affect the casual viewer.
anyway, i would say i was bored, but that was really only in the beginning, and then i couldn't be bored because i was very busy trying to figure out what was happening. i think it was well worth my time, and it helped that steve explained a lot to me afterward. i'm no dummy, i just have a hard time following complicated movie plots. i have a short attention span.
if you are into spy films (not spy THRILLERS.. this was no thriller though there was a handful of gore), you should see this. also if you like confusing films that are critically acclaimed. i will stick to shallow fluff and dark comedies :)
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