I keep coming back to the scene where she insists he’s not a victim. I can’t get it out of my head - it’s an archetypal dynamic I think about all the time but I’ve never seen before in film. Tar wanted to get at this but it was so entangled in its protagonist’s heady bullshit that even though it was all there, it felt unnecessarily obfuscated. This is the same essential concept distilled into zen poetry. It’s becoming more…
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 1965
Very upset to have awoken from the deep slumber that the first 10 mins sent me into in time to catch some of the remaining hour of this bureaucratic nightmare. Decent framing and Richard Burton can’t save what is surely the most mundane, detail-laden script in the history of cinema.
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